siemens

Plural: siemens

Noun

• The SI unit of electrical conductance, equivalent to reciprocal ohms.
• a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm
• engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883)
• German electrical engineer (1816-1892)
• In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical conductance; the electric conductance in a body that has a resistance of one ohm. Symbol: S

Examples

• Scoring with SIEMENS is rare, but the ’M’ can be invaluable for extending other words.

Synonyms

Ernst Werner von Siemens, Karl Wilhelm Siemens, mho, reciprocal ohm, S, Sir Charles William Siemens