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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A unit of current equal to one thousandth (10−3) of an ampere.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An electrical unit equal to the thousandth part of an ampere.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Elec.) The thousandth part of one ampère.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One thousandth (10-3) of an ampere.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one thousandth of an ampere

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Examples

  • Powered by two AA batteries, the device was sends 1 milliampere of alternating current — 1/1,000th the voltage used in ECT — through a patient's head via small, wet pads placed at the temples.

    Using Electricity, Magnets for Mental Illness Melinda Beck 2011

  • Feed it a carefully measured, milliampere-tiny surge of electricity.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • To stimulate us to greater improvement, Edison hung up a card which showed the results of tests in milliampere-hours given by the experimental elements as we tried them with the various grades of nickel and iron we had made.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 1910

  • To stimulate us to greater improvement, Edison hung up a card which showed the results of tests in milliampere-hours given by the experimental elements as we tried them with the various grades of nickel and iron we had made.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • The $40 battery, which launches on July 12, charges over USB, packs a 1,000mAh cell inside, and sports four LED lights on top to give you an idea of just how many of those milliampere-hours have yet to be served.

    "MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader 2010

  • "We are able to charge the material to 4.3 and 4.4 volts and attain a very high capacity of more than 210 milliampere hours per gram, with good power capability," he said.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Not only will coconutBattery show your your battery's charge down to the milliampere-hour

    Notebooks.com 2009

  • There are really just two statistics to them: number of cells and life rated in milliampere-hours (mAh).

    TabletPCReview.com - Tablet PC Reviews and News 2008

  • The battery itself will also be rated for either watt hours or more commonly, milliampere-hours, or mAh, and again, more is better.

    TabletPCReview.com - Tablet PC Reviews and News 2008

  • Where this gets a little bit tricky is that some batteries are able to produce a smidge more milliampere-hours out of the same number of cells using higher capacity cells.

    TabletPCReview.com - Tablet PC Reviews and News 2008

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