Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A siemens.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A term proposed by Sir William Thomson for the unit of electrical conductivity. It is the conductivity of a body whose resistance is one ohm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.) A unit of conductivity, being the reciprocal of the ohm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A former unit of electric
conductance , equivalent to andsuperseded by thesiemens .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Lord Kelvin is credited with coining mho by reversing the spelling of ohm.
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We could also call mho a backword, but we are better off staying with the family of - onyms.
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An ohm is a unit of electrical resistance (named for the German physicist, Georg Simon Ohm), and a mho is a unit of conductivity of a body whose resistance is one ohm.
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A mho tip: when you allow members to insult other members, it becomes a game, and gangs form and make a straw man of certain members.
Audio: Hillary Privately Blasted "The Activist Base Of The Democratic Party" For Caucus Defeats 2009
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Screw MN law - it's federal law that guides the Senate and it appears, in mho, that there is NO reason Franken cannot be seated.
Coleman Camp Proposes Month And A Half Long Schedule For Election Lawsuit 2009
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He's much better when he plays it straight, and he's quite capable of it, mho.
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Never been banned, and, mho, with a couple of years practice, has gotten quite good at redirecting confrontations about being a troll away from insult games -- in that, he's actually a lot better at preventing trollish discssions than many liberals here.
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If any political effect at all, it will be anti-incumbment, mho.
ABC Consultant Richard Clarke Blasts First Installment Of Film, Hints At ABC "Conspiracy" 2009
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February 12, 2008 at 5:59 pm weras ohm is a mesure ob resintance, mho iz a measuure of conduck tiv a tie.
Jus a tipz… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Why is that in mho: 1. There are fewer women in the wireless/mobile industry.
Are women invisible? Helen Keegan 2008
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