"direct current" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: direct currents [plural], DC [abbreviation]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} direct current (countable and uncountable, plural direct currents)
  1. (physics) An electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Physics, Electricity Translations (an electric circuit in which voltage and current do not vary with time): tasavirtapiiri (Finnish) Translations (electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time): تَيَّار مُسْتَمِر (tayyār mustamir) [masculine] (Arabic), прав ток (prav tok) [masculine] (Bulgarian), постоя́нен ток (postojánen tok) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 直流電 (Chinese Mandarin), 直流电 (zhíliúdiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 直流 (zhíliú) (Chinese Mandarin), stejnosměrný proud [masculine] (Czech), jævnstrøm [common-gender] (Danish), gelijkstroom [masculine] (Dutch), alalisvool (Estonian), tasavirta (Finnish), courant continu [masculine] (French), მუდმივი დენი (mudmivi deni) (Georgian), Gleichstrom [masculine] (German), συνεχές ρεύμα (synechés révma) [neuter] (Greek), egyenáram (Hungarian), arus searah (Indonesian), sruth díreach [masculine] (Irish), 直流電流 (chokuryū denryū) (alt: ちょくりゅうでんりゅう) (Japanese), 直流 (chokuryū) (alt: ちょくりゅう) (Japanese), arus terus (Malay), likestrøm [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), likestraum [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), prąd stały [masculine] (Polish), corrente contínua [feminine] (Portuguese), curent continuu [masculine] (Romanian), однонаправленный ток (odnonapravlennyj tok) [masculine] (Russian), corriente continua [feminine] (Spanish), likström [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-direct_current-en-noun-aC6R7N0o Disambiguation of Electricity: 48 52 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 65 35 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 73 27 Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics Disambiguation of 'an electric circuit in which voltage and current do not vary with time': 77 23 Disambiguation of 'electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time': 75 25
  2. (physics) A constant electric current. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Physics, Electricity Translations (constant electric current): gelykstroom (Afrikaans), tasavirta (Finnish), Konstantstrom [masculine] (German), постоя́нный ток (postojánnyj tok) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-direct_current-en-noun-9GCGb7dO Disambiguation of Electricity: 48 52 Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics Disambiguation of 'constant electric current': 37 63
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: alternating current

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      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time",
      "word": "arus terus"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "likestrøm"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "likestraum"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prąd stały"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "corrente contínua"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "curent continuu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "odnonapravlennyj tok",
      "sense": "electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "однонаправленный ток"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "corriente continua"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "likström"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "constant electric current",
      "word": "gelykstroom"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "constant electric current",
      "word": "tasavirta"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "constant electric current",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Konstantstrom"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "postojánnyj tok",
      "sense": "constant electric current",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "постоя́нный ток"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "an electric circuit in which voltage and current do not vary with time",
      "word": "tasavirtapiiri"
    }
  ],
  "word": "direct current"
}

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