direct current

See also: direct-current

English

Alternative forms

• direct-current (attributive)

Noun

direct current (countable and uncountable, plural direct currents) (abbreviated as DC)

1. (physics) An electric current in which the electrons flow in one direction, but may vary with time.
2. (physics) An electric current which does not vary with time.
3. (physics) An electric circuit in which voltage and current do not vary with time.

Antonyms

• alternating current, AC

Translations

electric current in which the electrons flow in one direction, but may vary with time

• Arabic: تَيَّار مُسْتَمِر m (tayyār mustamir)
• Bulgarian: прав ток m (prav tok), постоя́нен ток m (postojánen tok)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直流電／直流电 (zh) (zhíliúdiàn), 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
• German: Gleichstrom (de) m
• Greek: συνεχές ρεύμα n (synechés révma)
• Hungarian: egyenáram (hu)
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• Irish: sruth díreach m
• Japanese: 直流電流 (ちょくりゅうでんりゅう, chokuryū denryū), 直流 (ちょくりゅう, chokuryū)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: likestrøm m

  Nynorsk: likestraum m

• Polish: prąd stały m
• Portuguese: corrente contínua (pt) f
• Romanian: curent continuu (ro) m
• Russian: однонаправленный ток m (odnonapravlennyj tok)
• Spanish: corriente continua f
• Swedish: likström (sv) c

an electric current which do not vary with time

• Finnish: tasavirta (fi)
• Russian: постоя́нный ток (ru) m (postojánnyj tok)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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

• Finnish: tasavirtapiiri
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See also

• alternating current