ampere-hour

noun

am·​pere-hour ˈam-ˌpir-ˈau̇(-ə)r 

also -ˌper-

: a unit quantity of electricity equal to the quantity carried past any point of a circuit in one hour by a steady current of one ampere

Examples of ampere-hour in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

HiTHIUM says its fifth-generation intelligent manufacturing lines can produce more than 15 GWh per production line, while the company is developing thousand-ampere-hour-class cells for LDES applications. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1883, in the meaning defined above

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