Biot
/ˈbiːəʊ/Physics
noun
Electricity. With lower-case initial. The unit of current in the centimetre-gramme-second-electromagnetic unit system, equal to ten amperes; = abampere. Symbol Bi.
Origin
1940s (in an earlier sense). From the name of Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician.
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