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dark current

noun

  1. the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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But there’s a dark current running underneath that perfect cookie-cutter image.

From Salon

Operators will also point the telescope at starless areas of sky to understand the “dark current” created by thermal noise in the instrument itself.

And it will roil a dark current of 21st-century politics, concerning which some 19th-century history is germane.

“We entered the flow of the river together, its deep, dark current known to us, and its assurance, and we gave ourselves to ablution.”

This occurs because the photonic collection area of each resonator is much larger than its electrical area, thus substantially reducing the dark current of the device13.

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