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electric current
noun
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
another name for current
current, electric
2The flow of large numbers of electrons through a conductor. (See alternating current, conduction, and direct current.)
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of electric current1
Example Sentences
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.
"My heart was beating out of my chest. Then I felt something like an electric current going through my entire body," he said.
Induction occurs when the magnetic field of another active line nearby induces an electric current in the unconnected line.
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.
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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