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ampere
The ampere ( , ; symbol: A), often shortened to amp,SI supports only the use of symbols and deprecates the use of abbreviations for units. is the unit of electric current in the International System of Units (SI). One ampere is equal to 1 c ...
or amp (symbol A) is the base unit of electric current in the International System of Units.
Ampere or Ampère may also refer to:
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André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère (, ; ; 20 January 177510 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as ''electrodynamics''. He is also the inventor of ...
(1775–1836), physicist, mathematician and namesake of the ampere unit
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Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800–1864), French philologist
Places
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Ampére, a town in Paraná state, Brasil
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Aïn Azel, a commune in Algeria, former name Ampère
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Collège-lycée Ampère, a school in Lyon, France
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Place Ampère, a square in Lyon, France
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Ampère Seamount, a Seamount in the Atlantic Ocean 600km from Gibraltar
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Ampere (company)
Ampere is an electric vehicle and software company formed in 2023 by Groupe Renault as part of the third phase of its "Renaulution" recovery plan. Renault originally planned to spin off Ampere and proceed with an IPO but canceled these plans in ...
, electric vehicle subsidiary of Renault
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Ampère (car), a French automobile, built 1906–1909
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Ampere station, a former rail station in East Orange, New Jersey, US
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Ampere (microarchitecture)
Ampere is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to both the Volta and Turing architectures. It was officially announced on May 14, 2020, and is named after French mathemati ...
, a microarchitecture used in Nvidia GPUs
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Ampère Prize, a French scientific prize awarded annually in honor of André-Marie Ampère
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Ampere (band), an American punk band known for short and extremely loud performances
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Ampere Computing
Ampere Computing LLC is an American Fabless manufacturing, fabless semiconductor industry, semiconductor company based in Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara, California that develops processors for servers operating in large scale envi ...
, an American semiconductor company
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Ampere WS-1, a short-lived Japanese laptop based on the Motorola 68000
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Ampere balance, an electromechanical apparatus for precise measurement of the ampere
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Ampère's circuital law
In classical electromagnetism, Ampère's circuital law, often simply called Ampère's law, and sometimes Oersted's law, relates the circulation of a magnetic field around a closed loop to the electric current passing through the loop.
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, a rule relating the current in a conductor to the magnetic field around it
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Ampère's force law
In magnetostatics, Ampère's force law describes the force of attraction or repulsion between two current-carrying wires. The physical origin of this force is that each wire generates a magnetic field, following the Biot–Savart law, and th ...
, the force of attraction or repulsion between two current-carrying wires
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Monge–Ampère equation
In mathematics, a (real) Monge–Ampère equation is a nonlinear second-order partial differential equation of special kind. A second-order equation for the unknown function ''u'' of two variables ''x'',''y'' is of Monge–Ampère type if it is l ...
, a type of nonlinear second order partial differential equation
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AMPERS, the Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations
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Ampera (disambiguation)
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Amped (disambiguation)
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AMPS (disambiguation)
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Amp (disambiguation)
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