ohm
pronunciation
How to pronounce ohm in British English:
UK [əʊm]
How to pronounce ohm in American English:
US [ oʊm]
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- Noun:
- a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere
Word Origin
- ohm (n.)
- unit of electrical resistance, 1867, in recognition of German physicist Georg S. Ohm (1789-1854), who determined the law of the flow of electricity. Originally proposed as ohma (1861) as a unit of voltage. Related: ohmage; ohmic; ohmeter.
Example
- 1. Just as the kilometer is the unit of length , so the ohm is the practical unit of resistance .
- 2. Calculation of ohm loss efficiency for millimeter wave reflector antennas
- 3. This article verified with experiments that aluminum conductive paste has very good ohm contact with PTC thermistors after printing-sinter .
- 4. Ohm The ohm is a unit of electrical resistance .
- 5. On a generalized ohm \'s law in partially ionized plasma