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- Dictionaryampere/ˈampɛː/
noun
- 1. the SI base unit of electrical current.
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The ampere, often shortened to amp, is the SI base unit of electric current, named after French mathematician and physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), considered the father of electromagnetism along with the Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted. Wikipedia