microamp in Electrical Engineering
(maɪkroʊæmp) or microampere
Word forms: (regular plural) microamps noun(
Electrical engineering: Circuits, Communication)
A microamp is a millionth part of an amp.
Because of very low duty cycles, average currents are therefore in the microamp range enabling button cell battery power sources to last up to a year.
A change of even several hundred volts across the gate usually causes at most a smallfraction of a microamp to flow.
A microamp is a millionth part of an amp.