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2. Noun. (plural of ampère) ¹

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Definition of Amperes

1. ampere [n] - See also: ampere

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amperes

Literary usage of Amperes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"This would give ns an average of say, 55 amperes used. ... Assuming the average draw on the battery was 80 amperes for 10 seconds, the ampere-hours consumed ..."

2. The Electrical Engineer (1898)
"The cells, A and B, were connected in serie« ; until gas was freely evolved from all the plates, then discharged at the rate of 13 amperes. ..."

3. Municipal and Private Operation of Public Utilities: Report to the National by National Civic Federation (1907)
"121 enclosed arc lamps operating with 7.5 amperes, and 34 enclosed arc lamps operating ... (5 amperes and 1200 CP each. 10 enclosed commercial arc lamps, ..."

4. Electrical Machinery: A Practical Study Course on Installation, Operation by Fred Anzley Annett (1921)
"424, where the current in amperes and the pressure in volts have been plotted on the vertical ordinate to the same scale and the time in fractions of a ..."

5. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1911)
"rent transformer to the total volt-amperes in the line directly connected to ... Total volt-amperes on the transformer under consideration equals the sum of ..."

6. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1903)
"which would allow a current density of 500 amperes per square inch for a conductor carrying looo amperes; 1000 amperes per square inch for a conductor ..."

7. Problems in Electrical Engineering by Waldo Vinton Lyon (1908)
"currents are 13.2 amperes and 9 amperes respectively. When connected in series across 110-volt, 60-cycle mains the current is 3.4 amperes. ..."

8. Handbook of Mechanical and Electrical Cost Data: Giving Shipping Weights by Halbert Powers Gillette, Richard Turner Dana (1918)
"WATTMETERS Polyphase Wattmeters, with characteristics similar to the single phase type for 100 to 150 volts and from 5 to 50 amperes with a scale reading ..."

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