Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument for measuring electric currents in amperes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for measuring or estimating in amperes the strength of electric currents; an ampere-meter. See cut under
ampere-meter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) A contraction of
amperometer orampèremeter .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A device that measures the magnitude of an
electric current , especially one calibrated inamperes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a meter that measures the flow of electrical current in amperes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The ammeter is a dial that measures how many amps are consumed, helping the driver control energy efficiency for different driving situations.
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He shot another quick glance at the ship, corrected slightly with his feet, and back to the dial of the ammeter.
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With a nifty little device called a “watt-ammeter,” at right.
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With a nifty little device called a “watt-ammeter,” at right.
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The left number on the top box—the watt-ammeter—indicates the energy consumption of the TV, about 177 watts.
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The left number on the top box — the watt-ammeter — indicates the energy consumption of the TV, about 177 watts.
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A failure in the ammeter to register a current could, after all, be due to a failure of any of these other conditions, which is, of course, why experimenters spend so much time and money constructing experiments to
The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction Rey, Georges 2008
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But his chuckle was not so rotund, and he was very attentive to the ammeter.
Main Street 2004
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Then he began to check each lead with a clamp-on DC ammeter.
Pressure Point Dick Couch 1992
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Then he began to check each lead with a clamp-on DC ammeter.
Pressure Point Dick Couch 1992
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