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electric current

noun

Electricity.
  1. 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.



electric current

noun

  1. another name for current

“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

current, electric

1
  1. The flow of electrical charge, usually electrons. (See Benjamin Franklin.)

current, electric

2
  1. The flow of large numbers of electrons through a conductor. (See alternating current, conduction, and direct current.)

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of electric current1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

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The BBC reported in February the supermarkets were displaying posters and video screens showing devices which create a nicotine-containing vapour by heating tobacco with an electric current.

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"My heart was beating out of my chest. Then I felt something like an electric current going through my entire body," he said.

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Induction occurs when the magnetic field of another active line nearby induces an electric current in the unconnected line.

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All lithium-ion batteries work roughly the same way: Cells are clustered inside the battery casing, and lithium ions move between the electrodes in each cell, generating an electric current.

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Experts this week are expected to conduct soil resistivity testing, looking at how the soil around the towers absorbs and reacts to the flow of electric current.

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