ohms

noun

German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854)

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

Roots

ohmohm- · Eponym · named for G. S. Ohm

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