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Turns out the name is a reference to "ohm," the common unit of electrical measure.— Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
So he has endeavored to create types that shall prove appropriate for these different applications DECISION OF THE CONGRESS OF ELECTRICIANS ON THE UNITIES OF ELECTRIC MEASURES For these measures there are adopted the fundamental unities--centimeter, gramme, second, and this system is briefly designated by the letters C., G., S. The practical units, the ohm and the volt_, will retain their present definitions; the ohm is a resistance equal to 10^{9} absolute unities (C., G., S.— Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881
The Paris Congress decided upon adopting certain units of resistance of electromotive force, of current, and of quantity, and they determined the particular length of a column of mercury that should represent the ohm--a column of mercury 106 centimeters long and of one square millimeter in section.— Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885
The ohm, the ampere, the volt, are merely words that express ideas that we all understand; and so does the watt, and so will the 1,000 watts when you come to think over the matter as much as some of us have done At this Conference several other subjects were brought up which attracted a good deal of attention.— Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885
I think I'm down to the point now where I need an RF 75-ohm cable to connect the DVR to the TV.— VideoHelp.com Forum

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