Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A siemens.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. A former unit of electric conductance, equivalent to and superseded by the siemens.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Elec.) A unit of conductivity, being the reciprocal of the ohm.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm
Etymologies
- ohm spelled backwards (Wiktionary)
- Backward spelling of ohm. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Lord Kelvin is credited with coining mho by reversing the spelling of ohm.”
“We could also call mho a backword, but we are better off staying with the family of - onyms.”
“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.”
“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
“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
“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.”
“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"
“He's much better when he plays it straight, and he's quite capable of it, mho.”
“February 12, 2008 at 5:59 pm weras ohm is a mesure ob resintance, mho iz a measuure of conduck tiv a tie.”
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“Why is that in mho: 1. There are fewer women in the wireless/mobile industry.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mho’.
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WWF WTF?
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3-letter Scrabble Words
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 848 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
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bloodworm's list
These are words that I enjoy because they are unique, rare, long, or just cool.
circumlocution, hysteresis, schadenfreude, quixotic, loquacious, ennui, sesquipedalian, defenestrate, obfuscate, syzygy, ubiquitous, superfluous and 231 more...
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Really Cool Three-Letter Words
None of your "the" and "get" here. No, no. This is the place for auk and sty, and words of that ilk.
One might think that being limited to only three letters would prevent many words fro...auk, sty, ilk, ani, owl, zit, ink, eau, rum, pus, pwe, pyx and 105 more...
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