| 单词 | amp |
| 释义 | amp (once / 63545 pages) n An amp is a unit of electricity. Your new air conditioner might use nine amps of power, replacing your less efficient old one. When you're measuring electrical charge or current, you can express the units in amps, which is short for amperes. Since the 1880s, the definition of amp has been "the current that one volt can send through one ohm," and the word itself comes from the French physicist who helped found the science of electromagnetism, André-Marie Ampère. WORD FAMILYamp: amps USAGE EXAMPLESPerhaps what this tour does best is amp up this kind of nostalgia. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) The S&P 500 index suffered its biggest one-day percentage drop on Wednesday, following weak housing data and losses in the technology sector. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) He turned up his amps, joined a band, got good, got fast. Washington Times(Dec 10, 2016) n the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites a typical household circuit carries 15 to 50 amps Syn|Hyper A, ampere current unit a measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time AMP (once / 77759 pages) n WORD FAMILY AMP: AMPS USAGE EXAMPLESHe also didn’t like the idea of Google’s obscuring his site’s links — with AMP, they read google.com instead of macstories.net — in the interest of expediency. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) We’ve already shared what it's like to run a publication like The Verge in the age of Google AMP and Facebook video. The Verge(Oct 31, 2016) On a recent morning Mr. Macias was sitting in the sun outside AMP, his latest venture. New York Times(Aug 30, 2016) n a nucleotide found in muscle cells and important in metabolism; reversibly convertible to ADP and ATP Syn|Hyper adenosine monophosphate, adenylic acid base, nucleotide a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) |
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