How to say "amp" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- nounCovers 'amp' in the ordinary sense of an audio or guitar amplifier; the gloss also gives ampere, the electrical unit. This katakana loanword is the common everyday word, as in talking about a speaker's amp.
- ＡＭＰエー・エム・ピーnounThis is really the abbreviation AMP for adenosine monophosphate, a compound in biochemistry. It is seldom the word you want for an amplifier; reserve it for scientific or medical contexts where 'AMP' itself is meant.
Use 「アンプ」 for the everyday sense of 'amp' as an amplifier (or the ampere unit), and ＡＭＰ only when referring to the biochemical compound adenosine monophosphate, abbreviated AMP.
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