"ampere-hour" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ampere-hours [plural]
Etymology: established 1880-85, from ampere + hour. Head templates: {{en-noun}} ampere-hour (plural ampere-hours)
  1. (physics) a unit of electric charge, equal to the charge transferred by a current of one ampere in one hour through a specified point in a circuit, equal to 3600 coulombs. Wikipedia link: ampere-hour Categories (topical): Physics Derived forms: Ah [abbreviation], amp-hr [abbreviation], amp. hr. [abbreviation] Translations (unit of electric charge): ампер-гадзіна (ampjer-hadzina) [feminine] (Belarusian), ampere hora [masculine] (Catalan), ampérhodina [feminine] (Czech), ampertund (Estonian), ampeeritunti (Finnish), ampère-heure [masculine] (French), Amperestunde [feminine] (German), αμπερώριο (amperório) [neuter] (Greek), aimpéaruair [feminine] (Irish), amperora [masculine] (Italian), ампер-сағат (amper-sağat) (Kazakh), amperogodzina [feminine] (Polish), ampere-hora [masculine] (Portuguese), ampère-hora [masculine] (Portuguese), amper-oră [masculine] (Romanian), ампе́р-час (ampér-čas) [masculine] (Russian), ampersat (Serbo-Croatian), amper-saat (Turkish), ампер-година (amper-hodyna) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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