ampere-hour

English

Etymology

established 1880-85, from ampere + hour.

Noun

ampere-hour (plural ampere-hours)

(physics) a unit of electric charge, equal to the charge transferred by a current of one ampere in one hour through a specified point in a circuit, equal to 3600 coulombs.

Derived terms

Abbreviations: Ah, amp-hr, amp. hr.

Translations

unit of electric charge

Belarusian: ампер-гадзіна f (ampjer-hadzina)
Catalan: ampere hora m
Czech: ampérhodina (cs) f
Estonian: ampertund
Finnish: ampeeritunti (fi)
French: ampère-heure (fr) m
German: Amperestunde (de) f
Greek: αμπερώριο (el) n (amperório)
Irish: aimpéaruair f
Italian: amperora m
Kazakh: ампер-сағат (amper-sağat)
Polish: amperogodzina (pl) f
Portuguese: ampere-hora (pt) m, ampère-hora (pt) m
Romanian: amper-oră (ro) m
Russian: ампе́р-час (ru) m (ampér-čas)
Serbo-Croatian: ampersat (sh)
Turkish: amper-saat
Ukrainian: ампер-година f (amper-hodyna)

References

“ampere-hour”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
“ampere-hour”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
"ampere-hour" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

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