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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A siemens.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A term proposed by Sir William Thomson for the unit of electrical conductivity. It is the conductivity of a body whose resistance is one ohm.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Elec.) A unit of conductivity, being the reciprocal of the ohm.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A former unit of electric conductance, equivalent to and superseded by the siemens.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Backward spelling of ohm.]

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ohm spelled backwards

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