The name Heather is an English baby name. In English the meaning of the name Heather is: A flowering evergreen plant that thrives on peaty barren lands as in Scotland. Heather.
A milliamp is a unit used to measure electrical current and is equal to one one-thousandth of an ampere. The word milliamp is short for milliampere.. The ampere is the basic SI unit used to measure current, as established in 1948.
milli-. a combining form meaning âthousandâ (millipede); in the metric system, used in the names of units equal to 1/1000 of the given base unit (millimeter). [< French < Latin, comb. form of mille thousand] milli-. A prefix that means one thousandth, as in millimeter, one thousandth of a meter.