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ohms

ohms is the plural of ohm.

Meaning of ohm

Noun

ohm (plural ohms)

  1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical resistance; the electrical resistance of a device across which a potential difference of one volt causes a current of one ampere.
    • If the volt, ampere and ohm were taken as the absolute units, the practical units would be the ampere, begohm and begavolt, names just as convenient as ampere, coulomb and farad.1900, Journal of the Franklin Institute, volume 149, page 461

Phrase capitalized: OHMS

OHMS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of On Her Majesty's/His Majesty's Service.

Questions about ohms

What is ohms the plural of?
Ohms is the plural of ohm.
What part of speech is ohms?
Ohms is a phrase.

Words near ohms in the dictionary

  1. ohmigod
  2. ohmigosh
  3. ohmilite
  4. ohmmeter
  5. ohmmeters
  6. ohms
  7. ohmygawd
  8. ohmygod
  9. ohmygosh
  10. ohn
  11. ohnolog

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ohms (page history and authors); OHMS (page history and authors); ohm (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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