milliamp

Small electrical flow

A milliamp is one-thousandth of an ampere, the standard unit of electrical current.

The term appears in specifications for batteries, chargers, and electronic devices: a 2000 milliamp-hour battery.

Often abbreviated mA.

Also spelled milliampere.

electronics

current

Directed flow of charge

  • circuitClosed electrical pathway
  • LEDSemiconductor that glows
  • resistorCurrent-limiting circuit element

diode · transistor · capacitor · microcontroller · Arduino · sensor · battery · power supply · breadboard · PCB

measurement

ammeter

Electrical flow gauge

range · scale · unit · measurement · precision · calibration · tolerance · resolution · decimal · reading

battery

drain

Channel for wastewater

battery life · runtime · charging · trickle charge · standby · power draw · depletion · load

Categories
Opposites
scale of current magnitude

milliampkiloamp

Thousand-ampere measure

amp · ampere · microamp · nanoamp

electrical quantity type

milliampvolt

Electromotive force unit

millivolt · kilovolt · ohm · watt · farad

Family

milliampere, milliamperes, milliamps

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