Electr. [a. Ampère, name of a Fr. electrician; a designation adopted by the Paris Electric Congress in 1881.] (See quot.)
1881. Q. Rev., Oct., 457. The unit of current is called the Ampère. It is the current that one volt can send through one ohm.
1883. A. Gray in Nature, XXVII. 321/1. The current flowing in a wire of resistance one ohm, between the two ends of which a difference of potentials of one volt is maintained,—has been adopted as the practical unit of current and called one ampere.
