Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of current equal to one thousandth (10−3) of an ampere.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An electrical unit equal to the thousandth part of an ampere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.) The thousandth part of one ampère.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One thousandth (10-3) of an
ampere .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one thousandth of an ampere
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Examples
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Powered by two AA batteries, the device was sends 1 milliampere of alternating current — 1/1,000th the voltage used in ECT — through a patient's head via small, wet pads placed at the temples.
Using Electricity, Magnets for Mental Illness Melinda Beck 2011
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Feed it a carefully measured, milliampere-tiny surge of electricity.
Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963
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To stimulate us to greater improvement, Edison hung up a card which showed the results of tests in milliampere-hours given by the experimental elements as we tried them with the various grades of nickel and iron we had made.
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To stimulate us to greater improvement, Edison hung up a card which showed the results of tests in milliampere-hours given by the experimental elements as we tried them with the various grades of nickel and iron we had made.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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The $40 battery, which launches on July 12, charges over USB, packs a 1,000mAh cell inside, and sports four LED lights on top to give you an idea of just how many of those milliampere-hours have yet to be served.
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"We are able to charge the material to 4.3 and 4.4 volts and attain a very high capacity of more than 210 milliampere hours per gram, with good power capability," he said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Not only will coconutBattery show your your battery's charge down to the milliampere-hour
Notebooks.com 2009
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There are really just two statistics to them: number of cells and life rated in milliampere-hours (mAh).
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The battery itself will also be rated for either watt hours or more commonly, milliampere-hours, or mAh, and again, more is better.
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Where this gets a little bit tricky is that some batteries are able to produce a smidge more milliampere-hours out of the same number of cells using higher capacity cells.
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