The ampere or amp (symbol A) is the base unit of electric current in the International System of Units. Ampere or Ampère may also refer to: People André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), physicist, mathematician and namesake of the ampere unit Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800–1864), French philologist Places Ampére, a town in Paraná state, Brasil Aïn Azel, a commune in Algeria, former name Ampère Collège-lycée Ampère, a school in Lyon, France Place Ampère, a square in Lyon, France Ampère Seamount, a Seamount in the Atlantic Ocean 600km from Gibraltar Transportation Ampère (car), a French automobile, built 1906–1909 Ampere station, a former rail station in East Orange, New Jersey, US , a patrol craft of the US Navy , the world's first battery electric ferry Other uses Ampere (microarchitecture), a microarchitecture used in Nvidia GPUs Ampère Prize, a French scientific prize awarded annually in honor of André-Marie Ampère Ampere (band), an American punk band known for short and extremely loud performances Ampere Computing, an American semiconductor company See also Ampere balance, an electromechanical apparatus for precise measurement of the ampere Ampère's circuital law, a rule relating the current in a conductor to the magnetic field around it Ampère's force law, the force of attraction or repulsion between two current-carrying wires Monge–Ampère equation, a type of nonlinear second order partial differential equation AMPERS, the Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations Ampera (disambiguation) Amped (disambiguation) AMPS (disambiguation) Amp (disambiguation)