CURRENT UNIT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("current unit" is a kind of...):

electromagnetic unit; emu (any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "current unit"):

A; amp; ampere (the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites)

mA; milliampere (one thousandth of an ampere)

abamp; abampere (a unit of current equal to 10 amperes)

ampere; international ampere (a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere))