siemens

Other forms of siemens

plural

siemenses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about siemens

What does siemens mean?

siemens means "a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in siemens?

siemens has 2 syllables: sie-mens. The stress falls on "sie". In IPA it is /ˈsimənz/.

What is another word for siemens?

Close synonyms include mho, reciprocal ohm, S, Karl Wilhelm Siemens, Sir Charles William Siemens. 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 siemens a common word?

siemens 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.