ampere-hour

English

Etymology

established 1880-85, from ampere + hour.

Noun

ampere-hour (plural ampere-hours)

1. (physics) a unit of electric charge, equal to the charge transferred by a current of one ampere in one hour through a specified point in a circuit, equal to 3600 coulombs.

Derived terms

• Abbreviations: Ah, amp-hr, amp. hr.

Translations

unit of electric charge

• Belarusian: ампер-гадзіна f (ampjer-hadzina)
• Catalan: ampere hora m
• Czech: ampérhodina (cs) f
• Estonian: ampertund
• Finnish: ampeeritunti (fi)
• French: ampère-heure (fr) m
• German: Amperestunde (de) f
• Greek: αμπερώριο (el) n (amperório)
• Irish: aimpéaruair f
• Italian: amperora m
• Kazakh: ампер-сағат (amper-sağat)
• Polish: amperogodzina (pl) f
• Portuguese: ampere-hora (pt) m, ampère-hora (pt) m
• Romanian: amper-oră (ro) m
• Russian: ампе́р-час (ru) m (ampér-čas)
• Serbo-Croatian: ampersat (sh)
• Turkish: amper-saat
• Ukrainian: ампер-година f (amper-hodyna)

References

• “ampere-hour”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “ampere-hour”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "ampere-hour" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.