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currant, current, current
currant (KUR uhnt) (noun)
A shrub which produces small red, black or white berries which are typically used for making jams, jellies: The current in Lana's backyard produces an excellent crop of currents every year which she uses in her kitchen.
current (KUR uhnt) (adjective)
Pertaining to something which is happening in the present time: In class, the students shared the current events which they had read in the newspaper.
current (KUR uhnt) (noun)
1. The swift flow or movement of water: The current in the center of the river was very strong.
2. The movement of electricity: The meter on the wall measures the amount of current used in Sheldon's household.

The currant bushes grew next to the river current which was helpful in washing the berries when Lila was harvesting them.

current (s) (noun), currents (pl)
1. The continuous forward movement of a body of water; such as, a river: Fred realized that he couldn't paddle against the current in the stream for much longer; so, he tried to move over to the side.
2. A flow of electricity: The lights flickered a lot last night because of the unsteady current during the storm.
3. A common movement or tendency in society: A current of popular belief often decides a presidential election.
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current (adjective), more current, most current
Descriptive of the present time or being in progress now: Tim's current resume is up-to-date, so now he is looking for a job.
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electric current, current electricity, current
1. The time rate of flow of an electric charge, in the direction that a positive moving charge would take and having magnitude equal to the quantity of charge per unit of time measured in amperes.
2. Charged particles, most often electrons, moving through a conductor or transmitter; such as, copper and aluminum.
3. A flow of charged particles; such as, electrons or protons, accompanied by the field which they generate.
4. Movement of electric charge carriers.

In a wire, electric current is a flow of electrons that have been dislodged from atoms and is a measure of the quantity of electrical charge passing any point of the wire per unit of time.

This entry is located in the following unit: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 7)
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(Greek: new, recent, current, young)
(Greek: a flow, wave; current of a stream, current; electrical current)
(narrative descriptions and records of events from the distant and recent past; as well as, significant current events of global interest)
(Named after the Italian physician and physicist who investigated the nature and effects of what he conceived to be electricity in animal tissue; who in 1762 discovered and first described voltaic electricity; electric currents; and primarily, direct electrical current.)
(historical and current advances and achievements)
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AC current
Alternating Current current
This entry is located in the following unit: Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies (page 1)
Antarctic Circumpolar Current (s) (noun), Antarctic Circumpolar Currents (pl)
The world's largest ocean current which circles the globe and feeds cold water into the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
This entry is located in the following units: arcto-, arct- + (page 1) circum- (page 1)
April 24, 2007: Words of historical and current interest
As seen in the International Herald Tribune:

French candidates scramble for center: Sarkozy and Royal woo Bayrou voters

Takeover to create a banking behemoth: ABN AMRO accepts offer from Barclays valued at 67 billion euro

Boris Yeltsin, a flawed hero, dies; Russia's democratic father was a praised, and reviled, figure

Alpine village will break hundred years of solitude: Anticipation and dread for Austrian tunnel

From chaos, Wikipedia shapes a breaking story

U.S. Envoy to Germany joins fray over energy

Europe approves tightening of sanctions against Iran

Charges of fraud abound as ruling party wins in Nigeria

Classes resume as Virginia campus fights to regain balance

Romanian lawmakers set date for impeachment vote

Boris Yeltsin's bequest

Bagging eternal plastics

Unintended consequences

The elusive man who May have invented jazz

American talent feted in London: Energy of young New York designers goes on display

atmospheric convection current (s) (noun), atmospheric convection currents (pl)
The vertical movement of air currents resulting from temperature variations: Mr. Air explained the facts concerning atmospheric convection currents and that they arose from the changing differences in heat and cold in the atmosphere.
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current incumbent
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DC current
Direct Current current.
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electric current density, current density
The current per unit of a cross-sectional area of a conductor.
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electric current meter, ammeter
1. An instrument that is used for measuring the magnitude of electric current flow.
2. A device which is used to measure the magnitude of an electric current of several amperes or more.

An ammeter is usually combined with a voltmeter and an ohmmeter in a multipurpose tool.

This entry is located in the following unit: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 7)
electrode dark current
The current that flows in a photodetector when there is no optical radiation incident on the detector and operating voltages are applied.
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electromagnetic current
1. A movement of charged particles in the atmosphere giving rise to electric and magnetic fields; such as, those in the ionosphere that transmit radio signals.
2. Motions of charged particles; for example, in the ionosphere, that are giving rise to electric and magnetic fields.
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electronic alternating-current voltmeter, electronic alternating current voltmeter
1. A voltmeter consisting of a direct-current milliammeter calibrated in volts and connected to an amplifier-rectifier circuit.
2. A device that measures voltage in amplifier-rectifier circuits.
This entry is located in the following units: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 58) -tron, -tronic, -tronics + (page 6) volt + (page 1)
electronic motor control; direct-current motor control, motor control
1. An electronic instrument which adjusts the speed of a DC (direct current) motor when it is driven by an AC (alternating current) power line.
2. A control circuit used to change or to vary the speed of a direct-current (DC) motor operated from an alternating-current (AC) power line.

Silicon controlled rectifiers or power transistors rectify or correct the voltage and vary the field current of the motor.

electrotherapeutic current
Any of three types of electric current, which, when introduced into biologic tissue, is capable of producing specific physiologic changes.

The three types are direct monophasic, alternating biphasic, and pulsed polyphasic electric current.

electrotonic current
A current induced in a nerve sheath without the creation of a new current by an action potential or a momentary change in electrical potential on the surface of a neuron or muscle cell.
This entry is located in the following unit: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 89)
fault-current (s) (noun), fault-currents (pl)
Electricity that flows from a conductor to the ground or to another conductor because of something being wrong with the connections: Since there was a fault-current in the electrical system in Adam's old house, he often blew a fuse when he tried to turn on his lights.
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galvanic current
1. An essentially steady, direct current produced by galvanic action or chemical activity.
2. A steady direct current; especially, one that is produced chemically.
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geostrophic current (s) (noun), geostrophic currents (pl)
A wind, ocean current, or other such movement in which the horizontal force is exactly balanced by the apparent force exerted on a moving object by the rotation of the Earth: When studying oceanography, Jill learned that the Gulf Stream, the Kuroshio Current, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and the Agulhas Current were all examples of geostrophic currents.
This entry is located in the following unit: geo-, ge- + (page 18)
ion current
1. A current caused by a flow of positively charged ions.
2. The electric current resulting from the motion of ions.
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ionization current, gas current
1. A current produced in an ionized gas by an electric field.
2. A positive-ion current produced by collisions between electrons and residual gas molecules in an electron tube.
neutral current interaction
In particle physics, a weak interaction in which no electric charge is exchanged between the colliding particles.
This entry is located in the following unit: neutro-, neuter-, neutr-, neut- + (page 1)
salinity current
A density current in the ocean whose flow is caused by its relatively higher salinity, and therefore its greater density, in comparison to the surrounding water.
voltage saturation, anode saturation, plate saturation, current saturation
1. In an electron tube, the valence of the anode current which does not further increase with an increase in anode voltage.

The term anode is a general term for the electrode, terminal, or element through which current enters a conductor; so called from the path the electrical current was thought to take.

2. A situation in which the anode current of an electron tube can not be further increased by increasing the anode voltage.

The electrons are then being drawn to the anode at the same rate as they are emitted from the cathode.

This entry is located in the following units: platy-, plat-, platino-, platt- (page 4) volt + (page 6)
voltage-current dual, voltage current dual
1. The replacement of elements of one circuit pair by their dual elements in another circuit, according to the duality principle.
2. A pair of circuits in which the elements of one circuit are replaced by their dual elements in the other circuit according to the duality principle; for example, currents are replaced by voltages, capacitances by resistances.
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current (s) (noun), currents (pl)
The flow of electricity; for example, in metals which are good conductors of electric currents.
This entry is located in the following unit: Technical Science and Engineering (page 1)
(Old English: (first meaning), more forward; (current meaning), in addition, to a grater degree)
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alternating current, AC
A type of electrical current, the direction of which is reversed at regular intervals or cycles.

In the United States, the standard is 120 reversals or 60 cycles per second. Electricity transmission networks use alternating current because voltage can be controlled with relative ease.

Alternating current is easier to transmit over long distances than direct current (DC), and it is the form of electricity used today in most homes and businesses.

array current
The electrical current produced by a photovoltaic array when it is exposed to sunlight.
This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 2)
current at maximum power; Imp
The current at which maximum power is available from a module.
This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 5)
direct current; DC
A type of electricity transmission and distribution by which electricity flows in one direction through the conductor, usually relatively low voltage and high current.

To be used for typical 120 volt or 220 volt household appliances, DC must be converted to alternating current, its opposite.

This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 6)
electric current
The flow of electrical energy (electricity) in a conductor, measured in amperes.
This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 8)
electric current
An electric current consists of charged particles moving through a conductor usually consisting of electrons.

The electrons in some atoms; such as, copper and aluminum, are free to move and to jump from one atom to another and such materials are known as conductors.

Other materials; such as, wood, do not contain as many moving electrons, and so they are called insulators and when a material is neither completely a conductor nor an insulator, it is called a semiconductor.

When an electric current moves continuously in one direction, it is called a direct current and when the current fluctuates rapidly back and forth, it is called an alternating current.

Alternating current is used in almost all worldwide household wiring today while direct current is commonly seen in battery-operated devices.

This entry is located in the following unit: Electrical and Electronic Topics (page 1)
gassing current
The portion of charge current that goes into electrolytical production of hydrogen and oxygen from the electrolytic liquid.

This current increases with increasing voltage and temperature.

This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 9)
load current (A)
The current required by the electrical device.
This entry is located in the following units: load, loading, loaded (page 1) Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 12)
peak power current
Amperes produced by a photovoltaic module or array operating at the voltage of the I-V curve that will produce maximum power from the module.
This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 15)
rated module current
The current output of a photovoltaic module measured at standard test conditions of 1,000 w/m2 and 25 degrees Celsius cell temperature.
This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 18)
reverse current protection
Any method of preventing unwanted current flow from the battery to the photovoltaic array (usually at night).

Also see blocking diode.

This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 18)
short-circuit current
The electrical current flowing freely through an external circuit that has no load or resistance; the maximum current possible.
This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 19)
standby current
This is the amount of current (power) used by the inverter when no load is active (lost power).

The efficiency of the inverter is lowest when the load demand is low.

This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 20)