current
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈkɜːrənt/
- Specialized
:
corriente eléctrica
- His job was to make sure the current was alive and hot.
- electrical current
- electric current
- voltage and current
He wants to source DC current and DC voltage, right.
- He wants to source DC current and DC voltage, right.
- For a uniform electron current, you get no radiation.
- And moving electrons, that's current, as simple as that.
Examples
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For several hours, an electric current is passed from one end of the gel to the other.
Academic text (1990) -
Engineers have known for generations that relatively small electric currents cause painful and uncontrollable muscle contractions.
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And if I turn this back down, now the current rises again.
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There will be much higher current flowing through the LED.
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If you turn on a switch and send a current through a bulb, you get light.
Fiction book (1991) -
It turns out we were drawing too much current for this power chip.
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Electrowinning uses a direct electric current to remove dissolved metal ions from a solution.
Academic text (1994) -
Power in watts equals the electrical current multiplied by its voltage.
Academic text (2008) -
When jolted with an electrical current, a quartz crystal vibrates at a very specific frequency.
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There will be much higher current flowing through the LED.
Synonyms
8
3.0
A flow of electricity through a wire that carries energy
3
3.5
An electric flow that moves steadily in one direction, for example from a battery
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3.7
Energy made when charged particles move steadily through a wire to power devices
A flow of electricity, like the current in a wire
An electric flow that moves in one direction and does not reverse
A flow of electricity made in a material when light hits it
An electric flow between two metal parts caused by heat making electrons leave one part
Antonyms
- Specialized
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4.1
An electric charge that builds on a surface when things rub together, causing small shocks or making hair stand
Idioms
To move forward despite strong opposition or many difficulties
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.1
A steady movement of sea water in one direction that moves heat around the planet
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3.4
A fast, powerful flow of water in a river or the sea that pulls people and things away
- Specialized
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3.5
An electric flow that moves steadily in one direction, for example from a battery
- Specialized
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6.3
A record of a country's trade in goods and services and money sent to or from other countries
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6.0
A strong narrow flow of water moving from the shore out to sea that can pull swimmers away
- Specialized
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3.6
Items a company can turn into cash within one year, like inventory or money owed to it
- Specialized
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3.7
Energy made when charged particles move steadily through a wire to power devices
- Specialized
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5.7
Recent information about events that people share quickly because it is needed now
- Specialized
A part on trams and trains that takes electricity from overhead wires or a rail to power them
- Specialized
An electric flow that moves in one direction and does not reverse
- Specialized
A current that flows west along the equator because of steady winds
- Specialized
A flow of electricity that moves back and forth regularly, like the power in homes
A warm ocean current that flows northeast off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific
- Specialized
A cold ocean current that flows north along the west coast of South America
- Specialized
A warm ocean current that flows northeast from the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific
- Specialized
A warm ocean flow that moves west across the Pacific just north of the equator
- Specialized
An electric flow between two metal parts caused by heat making electrons leave one part
- Specialized
An ocean flow that moves westward just south of the equator
How Strong
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word current for electricity comes from the same Latin currere, 'to run', as a helpful picture: electricity 'runs' through a wire like water in a river, so an electrical current is a flow of electric charge.