direct current

English

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Noun

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

1. (physics) An electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time.
2. (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.