Meaning | Energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor. |
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Synonyms | electricity, power |
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Narrower | alternating current, AC, alternating electric current | An electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally |
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direct current, DC, direct electric current | An electric current that flows in one direction steadily |
signal | An electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes |
Broader | energy, free energy | (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work |
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Spanish | electricidad, energía eléctrica |
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Catalan | electricitat, energia elèctrica |
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