international ampere

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsampere

   Broadercurrent unit

Questions about international ampere

What does international ampere mean?

international ampere means "a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere)".

What is another word for international ampere?

Close synonyms include ampere. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is international ampere a common word?

international ampere 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.