skin effect

1. 1.

   the tendency of high-frequency alternating current to distribute near the surface of a conductor

   Broaderelectrical phenomenon

Questions about skin effect

What does skin effect mean?

skin effect means "the tendency of high-frequency alternating current to distribute near the surface of a conductor".

Is skin effect a common word?

skin effect 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.