ampere-turn

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   a unit of magnetomotive force equal to the magnetomotive force produced by the passage of 1 ampere through 1 complete turn of a coil; equal to 1.257 gilberts

   Broadermagnetomotive force unit

Questions about ampere-turn

What does ampere-turn mean?

ampere-turn means "a unit of magnetomotive force equal to the magnetomotive force produced by the passage of 1 ampere through 1 complete turn of a coil; equal to 1.257 gilberts".

How many syllables are in ampere-turn?

ampere-turn has 4 syllables and divides as am-pe-re--turn under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is ampere-turn a common word?

ampere-turn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.