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

  • noun The SI-derived unit of electrical resistance of a conductor through which a current of one ampere flows when subjected to a one-volt potential across its terminals.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In electricity, the unit of resistance (see resistance).
  • noun An abbreviation of On His (or Her) Majesty's Service.

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

  • noun (Elec.) The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampére. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters. As thus defined it is called the international ohm.
  • noun (Elec.) the statement of the fact that the strength or intensity of an electrical current is directly proportional to the electro-motive force, and inversely proportional to the resistance of the circuit.

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  • noun In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical resistance; the electrical resistance of a device across which a potential difference of one volt causes a current of one ampere. Symbol: Ω

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

  • noun a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere
  • noun German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Georg Simon Ohm.]

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After Bavarian physicist Georg Ohm.

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  • A sound made in pseudobuddhistic meditation. Cf. hon.

    May 11, 2018