The unit of resistance is the ohm, and its symbol is the same as the capital letter Omega in the Greek alphabet, "Ω".
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Ohm
//oʊm//
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41 translations across 37 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- أُوم noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Armenian
1 entries- օհմ noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Belarusian
1 entries- ом noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ом noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Catalan
1 entries- ohm noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 歐姆 /欧姆 noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Czech
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Dutch
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Esperanto
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Finnish
1 entries- ohmi noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
French
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Georgian
1 entries- ომი noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
German
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Greek
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Hebrew
2 entries- אוֹם noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
- אוהם noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Icelandic
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Indonesian
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Irish
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Italian
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Japanese
1 entries- オーム noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Khmer
1 entries- អូម noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Korean
1 entries- 옴 noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Latvian
1 entries- oms noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Macedonian
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Malay
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Māori
1 entries- wae parehiko noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Polish
2 entries- ohm noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
- om noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Portuguese
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Russian
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Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- om noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
- ом noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Spanish
1 entries- ohmio noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Swedish
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Tagalog
2 entries- om noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
- omyo noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Thai
1 entries- โอห์ม noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Turkish
1 entries- om noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ом noun (the derived unit of electrical resistance)
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The ohm is the unit of measurement for electrical resistance in the SI system. Its symbol is Ω.
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The ohm is the unit of measure for electrical resistance.
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If the volt, ampere and ohm were taken as the absolute units, the practical units would be the ampere, begohm and begavolt, names just as convenient as ampere, coulomb and farad.
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