Abmho or absiemens is a unit of
electrical conductance
The electrical resistance of an object is a measure of its opposition to the flow of electric current. Its reciprocal quantity is , measuring the ease with which an electric current passes. Electrical resistance shares some conceptual paralle ...
in the
centimetre gram second (CGS-EMU) system of units. It corresponds to one
gigasiemens (inverse nanoohm).
The CGS-EMU units are one of several systems of electromagnetic units that are subsystems of the
centimetre–gram–second system of units
The centimetre–gram–second system of units (abbreviated CGS or cgs) is a variant of the metric system based on the centimetre as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of mass, and the second as the unit of time. All CGS mechanical units ...
, which include CGS-ESU,
Gaussian units
Gaussian units constitute a metric system of physical units. This system is the most common of the several electromagnetic unit systems based on cgs (centimetre–gram–second) units. It is also called the Gaussian unit system, Gaussian-cgs uni ...
, and
Heaviside–Lorentz units. The abmho is not a unit of any these other systems.
References
Electricity
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