electric current
the time rate of flow of electric charge, in the direction that a positive moving charge would take and having magnitude equal to the quantity of charge per unit time: measured in amperes.
Origin of electric current
1- Also called current, electricity.
Words Nearby electric current
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How to use electric current in a sentence
That stream of charged particles produces an electric current, which flows out of the battery to power whatever needs powering.
Novel lithium-metal batteries will drive the switch to electric cars | Katie McLean | February 24, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThe Nationals’ biggest spring training roster questions are all on the marginsThe sense of a common experience, even though processed much differently, runs like a faint electric current through everyone who remembers.
Nothing can spoil the first day of spring training. (Though covid sure is giving it a shot.) | Thomas M. Boswell | February 18, 2021 | Washington PostA new slow-motion video offers the best view yet of the split-second collision of electric currents that creates a flash of lightning.
That could create a very short, but powerful surge of electric current, Neubert says.
Space station sensors saw how weird ‘blue jet’ lightning forms | Maria Temming | February 2, 2021 | Science News For StudentsThose reactions create charges that let the battery provide an electric current.
British Dictionary definitions for electric current
another name for current (def. 8)
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