Definition of Milliampere

1. Noun. One thousandth of an ampere.

Exact synonyms: Ma
Generic synonyms: Current Unit
Group relationships: A, Amp, Ampere

Definition of Milliampere

1. Noun. One thousandth (10-3) of an ampere. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Milliampere

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Milliampere

1. The thousandth part of one ampere. Origin: Milli- + ampere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Milliampere

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milli-amp
milli-farad
milli-farads
milli-joule
milli-joules
milli-ohm
milli-ohms
milli-volt
milli-watt
milliKelvin
milliammeter
milliammeters
milliamp
milliampere (current term)
milliamperes
milliamps
milliarcsec
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milliarcseconds
milliard
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milliare
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milliaries
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millibar
millibarn
millibarns

Literary usage of Milliampere

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. "Cataphoresis" Or Electric Medicamental Diffusion Or Applied in Medicine by William James Morton (1898)
"milliampere METERS. WE have seen from what has already been written that it was ... We have also seen that an instrument called a milliampere meter has been ..."

2. Utilisation and Reliability of High Power Proton Accelerators: Workshop by NEA Nuclear Science Committee (2001)
"The prototype of a 14 MeV, multi-milliampere cyclotron using this new technology is currently under construction. The design and the status of this project ..."

3. A Text-book of radiology (X-rays) by Edward Reginald Morton (1918)
"For this purpose a milliampere-meter is used, which differs in no essential ... While the milliampere-meter tells us with great accuracy the current flowing ..."

4. Electricity in the Diseases of Women: With Special Reference to the by George Betton Massey (1890)
"ACTION OF CONCENTRATED milliampere CURRENTS ON ORGANIZED TISSUES. GYNECOLOGICAL applications of electricity consist so largely in the continuous, ..."

5. Elementary and Dental Radiography by Howard Riley Raper (1918)
"The milliampere-second unit is obtained, recall, by multiplying the number of ... Though it would not do for the X-ray therapeutist, the milliampere- second ..."

6. Electricity in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Nose, Throat by William Scheppegrell (1898)
"ARRANGEMENT OF CELLS—RHEOSTATS—milliampere-METERS. ARRANGEMENT OF CELLS. WHEN a number of cells of a chemical or storage battery is used, the relative ..."

7. Essentials of medical electricity by David Denison Stewart, Edward S. Lawrance (1891)
"... degree upon the difference of magnetism between the two needles used in the galvanometer. The milliampere Meter has become the standard for measurement ..."

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