What does direct current mean?

direct current means "an electric current that flows in one direction steadily".

What is another word for direct current?

Close synonyms include DC, direct electric current. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of direct current?

The recorded antonyms are alternating current.

Is direct current a common word?

direct current is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

direct current — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
SynonymsDC direct electric current
Antonymsalternating current
Broaderelectricity

Questions about direct current

What does direct current mean?: direct current means "an electric current that flows in one direction steadily".
What is another word for direct current?

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