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CURRENT UNIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("current unit" is a kind of...):
electromagnetic unit; emu (any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "current unit"):
A; amp; ampere (the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites)
mA; milliampere (one thousandth of an ampere)
abamp; abampere (a unit of current equal to 10 amperes)
ampere; international ampere (a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere))
