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ohm
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ohm \Ohm\ ([=o]m), n. [So called from the German electrician, G. S. Ohm.] (Elec.) The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one amp['e]re. ...
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The ohm (symbol: Ω ) is the SI derived unit of electrical resistance , named after German physicist Georg Simon Ohm . Although several empirically derived standard units for expressing electrical resistance were developed in connection with early telegraphy ...
Usage examples of ohm.
When Ohm had only a few human robots he got enough astatine from his own banknotes.
Volt, ohm, ampere: might as well be biff, baff, boff, for all the sense it makes.
So it has to force its way through whillions and skillions of ohms of resistance to get through to you at all.
They had discovered the X ray, the cathode ray, the electron, and radioactivity, invented the ohm, the watt, the Kelvin, the joule, the amp, and the little erg.
I can't risk getting most of the way home and then seeing the whole thing go to data heaven because of an oHm drop, or a surge too great for the suppressor to cope with.