A rarely used or archaic alternative term for amperage, the strength of electric current.
Formed from 'ampere' with the suffix '-y', following old English patterns for creating nouns from units. This form is largely obsolete.
Language in science often gets trimmed down—'ampery' lost the battle to 'amperage,' showing how technical vocabulary evolves and older terms disappear.
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