Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In electricity, an instrument for the measurement of small electric currents, in which the scale is graduated to read in thousandths of an ampere. Also
milammeter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a sensitive ammeter for detecting small currents, graduated in milliamperes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
instrument for measuring electricalcurrent in milliamperes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sensitive ammeter graduated in milliamperes
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Examples
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The milliammeter showed sixteen or seventeen; that was about normal at the beginning of the run.
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He told the wing-commander of the vagaries shown on the milliammeter.
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"That would mean my milliammeter would go all haywire?"
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The milliammeter got up to twenty-five quite a long time before and stayed there steadily.
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But now I think it would be better if we send up somebody with you to watch the milliammeter and throw the switch immediately it starts to rise.
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"You will remember to keep looking at the milliammeter the whole of the time?"
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Gee, these tubes and chokes, this milliammeter and that rotary converter down below — they'd done a mighty job.
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