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The ohm (symbol: Ω, the uppercase Greek letter omega) is the unit of electrical resistance in the International System of Units (SI). It is named after German physicist Georg Ohm .
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
The symbol for the highest power level of a PSI attack in the Mother/EarthBound games; A symbol used by U.S. citizens in the 1960s & 1970s to denote resistance to the U.S. war in Viet Nam. Adapted from the SI unit for electrical resistance. [11] It's used along with Alpha in the Alpha and Omega, a Christian symbol.
Ohm's name has been incorporated in the terminology of electrical science in Ohm's Law (which he first published in Die galvanische Kette...), [5] the proportionality of current and voltage in a resistor, and adopted as the SI unit of resistance, the ohm (symbol Ω). Although Ohm's work strongly influenced theory, at first it was received with ...
ohms (symbol Ω) usually refers to the plural for the unit of electrical resistance, named after Georg Ohm Ohms or OHMS may also refer to: Ohm's law of electric currents, first proposed by Georg Ohm; O.H.M.S., On His/Her Majesty's Service; O.H.M.S., a 1937 British action comedy film; OHMS, an American film starring Leslie Nielsen
[1] Exceptions to this include characters in certain writing systems that are also in use as political or religious symbols, such as 卐 (U+5350), the swastika encoded as a Chinese character (although it is also encoded as a religious symbol at U+0FD5); or ॐ (U+0950), the Om symbol which is, strictly speaking, a Devanagari ligature.
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Note that the symbol for the ohm (Ω) is not a Latin letter, but it is a capitalized Greek letter. --Random832 15:54, 19 June 2008 (UTC) The words "Latin" and "Greek ...