alternating current

English

Noun

Wikipedia alternating current (plural alternating currents) (abbreviated as AC)

1. an electric current in which the direction of flow of the electrons reverses periodically having an average of zero, with positive and negative values (with a frequency of 50 Hz in Europe, 60 Hz in the US, 400 Hz for airport lighting, and some others); especially such a current produced by a rotating generator or alternator.

Translations

electric current

• Arabic: تيار متردد (ar) (tayyaar mutaraddid) m
• Bulgarian: променлив ток (bg) (proménliv tok) m
• Catalan: corrent altern (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 交流電 (cmn), 交流电 (cmn) (jiāoliúdiàn), 交流 (cmn) (jiāoliú)

• Czech: střídavý proud (cs) m
• Dutch: wisselstroom (nl) f
• Estonian: vahelduvvool (et)
• Finnish: vaihtovirta (fi)
• German: Wechselstrom (de) m
• Greek: εναλλασσόμενο ρεύμα (el) (enallassómeno révma) n

• Hungarian: váltóáram (hu)
• Japanese: 交流電流 (ja) (こうりゅうでんりゅう, kōryū denryū), 交流 (ja) (こうりゅう, kōryū)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vekselstrøm (no) m

  Nynorsk: vekselstraum (nn) m

• Polish: prąd przemienny m, prąd zmienny m
• Portuguese: corrente alterna (pt) f
• Romanian: curent alternativ (ro) m
• Russian: переменный ток (ru) (pereménnyj tok) m
• Spanish: corriente alterna (es) f
• Swedish: växelström (sv) c

See also

• direct current
• generator
• transformer
• inverter