AMPS

(Telecommunications) most widely-used standard for analog cellular communications (basis of the cellular phone industry in the United States)

n. unit of measure in electronics; amplifier, booster

"AMPS" redirects here. AMPS is also an initialism for the "All Media and Products Survey" published by the South African Advertising Research Foundation. Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) is the analog mobile phone system standard developed by Bell Labs, and officially introduced in the Americas in 1983. It was the primary analog mobile phone system in North America (and other locales) through the 1980s and into the 2000s, and is still widely available today, although use has dropped considerably with the introduction of various digital standards.
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Noun
1. the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; "a typical household circuit carries 15 to 50 amps"
(synonym) ampere, A
(hypernym) current unit
(part-holonym) abampere, abamp
(part-meronym) milliampere, mA

Abbreviation for automatic message processing system.

Any organized assembly of resources and methods used to collect, process, and distribute messages largely by automatic means. [JP1]

1. <mathematics, tool> Algebraic Manipulation Package.
2.  Active Measurement Project.
(2004-01-18)