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Webster 1913 Edition
Ampere
{ ‖
Amˊpère′
(äNˊpâr′)
, Am-pere′
(ăm-pār′)
, } Noun.
[From the name of a French electrician.]
(Elec.)
The unit of electric current; – defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the
international ampère
.