mho

[ moh ]

noun

, Electricity.

, plural mhos.

1. siemens

mho

/ məʊ /

noun

1. the former name for siemens

mho

/ mō /

1. The SI derived unit of electrical conductance, equal to one ampere per volt. It is equivalent to the reciprocal of the ohm unit.
2. Also called siemens

Word History and Origins

Origin of mho¹

C19: formed by reversing the letters of ohm (first used by Lord Kelvin)

Example Sentences

No agreed-on definition of MHO exists, Klein says; anywhere from about 6% to 60% of people qualify.

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But Schulze’s work pointed to a wrinkle of MHO: In the U.S. group, in which a higher proportion qualified as metabolically healthy, the average age was 41; in the U.K. group it was 56.

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Women, younger people, and those with BMIs under 35 are more likely to meet MHO criteria.

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At the same time, Vidal-Puig expresses a quandary he and colleagues face: He is reluctant to use the term MHO, which he worries could mislead people into thinking, “it’s OK to be obese.”

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This year, Schulze and his colleagues proposed a new definition for MHO based on data from two existing cohorts with a range of BMIs, one including about 12,000 U.S. adults and the other, 374,000 U.K. adults.

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