Definition of "milliampere" [mil•li•am•père]

• A unit of current equal to one thousandth (10-3) of an ampere. (noun)

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• "Powered by two AA batteries, the device was sends 1 milliampere of alternating current — 1/1,000th the voltage used in ECT — through a patient's head via small, wet pads placed at the temples."
• "Feed it a carefully measured, milliampere-tiny surge of electricity."
• "To stimulate us to greater improvement, Edison hung up a card which showed the results of tests in milliampere-hours given by the experimental elements as we tried them with the various grades of nickel and iron we had made."