direct current

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

direct current (countable and uncountable, plural direct currents, abbreviation 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)
Catalan: corrent continu m
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 (el) n (synechés révma)
Hindi: दिष्ट धारा f (diṣṭ dhārā)
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)
Korean: 직류(直流) (jingnyu)
Latvian: līdzstrāva f
Malay: arus terus (ms)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: likestrøm m

Nynorsk: likestraum m
Polish: prąd stały (pl) m
Portuguese: corrente contínua (pt) f
Romanian: curent continuu (ro) m
Russian: однонаправленный ток m (odnonapravlennyj tok)
Spanish: corriente continua (es) f
Swedish: likström (sv) c
Tibetan: ཐད་རྒྱུན་གློག་རྒྱུན (thad rgyun glog rgyun)

constant electric current

Afrikaans: gelykstroom (af)
Bulgarian: постоянен ток m (postojanen tok)
Finnish: tasavirta (fi)
German: Konstantstrom m
Polish: prąd stały (pl) m
Russian: постоя́нный ток (ru) m (postojánnyj tok)

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

Finnish: tasavirtapiiri
Polish: prąd stały (pl) m

See also

alternating current

References

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