Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun siemens

3 senses of siemens

Sense 1
mho, siemens, reciprocal ohm, S -- (a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm)
       => conductance unit -- (a measure of a material's ability to conduct an electrical charge)

Sense 2
Siemens, Karl Wilhelm Siemens, Sir Charles William Siemens -- (engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883))
       INSTANCE OF=> engineer, applied scientist, technologist -- (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)

Sense 3
Siemens, Ernst Werner von Siemens -- (German electrical engineer (1816-1892))
       INSTANCE OF=> electrical engineer -- (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)