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The unit measuring how eagerly electricity says yes instead of no.
means The SI unit of electrical conductance — the reciprocal of the ohm — measuring how readily a material lets electric current flow through it.
from Named for Werner von Siemens, the 19th-century German inventor and industrialist who helped found the electrical engineering firm that still bears the family name. The unit was adopted internationally in the 20th century. Fittingly, it's the ohm's mirror image — and 'siemens' is also that pleasant word that looks the same singular or plural, so one siemens and many siemens both keep the s.
- conductance unit
- Inverse of the ohm, named the reciprocal mho
- old name
- Was literally called mho, ohm spelled backward
- namesake
- Werner von Siemens, founder of the electrical empire
- plural quirk
- Both singular and plural spelled identically
- adopted 1971
- Made official by international weights conference
siemens ag — german multinational conglomerate founded 1847, €168 billion market cap, headquartered in munich
siemens healthineers — medical technology subsidiary spun off 2018, €20 billion revenue from imaging and diagnostics