Definition of "mho" []

• A siemens. (noun)

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• "Lord Kelvin is credited with coining mho by reversing the spelling of ohm."
• "We could also call mho a backword, but we are better off staying with the family of - onyms."
• "An ohm is a unit of electrical resistance (named for the German physicist, Georg Simon Ohm), and a mho is a unit of conductivity of a body whose resistance is one ohm."