direct current

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English

Noun

direct current (countable and uncountable, plural direct currents) (abbreviated DC)

(physics) An electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time.
(physics) A constant electric current.

Antonyms

alternating current, AC

Translations

electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time

Arabic: تَيَّار مُسْتَمِر m (tayyār mustamir)
Bulgarian: прав ток m (prav tok), постоя́нен ток m (postojánen tok)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 直流電／直流电 (zh) (zhíliúdiàn), 直流 (zh) (zhíliú)
Czech: stejnosměrný proud m
Danish: jævnstrøm (da) c
Dutch: gelijkstroom (nl) m
Estonian: alalisvool (et)
Finnish: tasavirta (fi)
French: courant continu (fr) m
Georgian: მუდმივი დენი (mudmivi deni)
German: Gleichstrom (de) m
Greek: συνεχές ρεύμα n (synechés révma)
Hungarian: egyenáram (hu)
Indonesian: arus searah (id)
Irish: sruth díreach m
Japanese: 直流電流 (ちょくりゅうでんりゅう, chokuryū denryū), 直流 (ja) (ちょくりゅう, chokuryū)
Malay: arus terus (ms)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: likestrøm m

Nynorsk: likestraum m
Polish: prąd stały m
Portuguese: corrente contínua (pt) f
Romanian: curent continuu (ro) m
Russian: однонаправленный ток m (odnonapravlennyj tok)
Spanish: corriente continua f
Swedish: likström (sv) c

constant electric current

Afrikaans: gelykstroom
Finnish: tasavirta (fi)
German: Konstantstrom m
Russian: постоя́нный ток (ru) m (postojánnyj tok)

an electric circuit in which voltage and current do not vary with time

Finnish: tasavirtapiiri

References

direct current on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
“direct current”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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