milliamps

Thousandths of amperes

Milliamps is the plural of milliamp, a unit of electrical current equal to one-thousandth of an ampere.

The term appears in technical specifications for batteries, power supplies, and electronic devices: The charger outputs 500 milliamps.

Often abbreviated mA.

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