Wiktionary
milliamp
n. One thousandth ( 10-3 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as mA.
Usage examples of "milliamp".
That it was in the milliamp range, rather than the five hundred amps required by the engines, became moot.
Maybe it is a sine qua non of the way in which a given optical drive or CD Walkman works that it has to draw 600 milliamps rather than 500, or have its negative terminal on the tip rather than the sleeve, and that it will either whine or fry itself if presented with anything faintly different.
Settings were okay—84 kilovolts, 200 milliamps, exposure time fifteen hundredths of a second.