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an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally
In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second
How To Use alternating current In A Sentence
- Some lesions can be shaved down to the level of the surrounding skin, either using a surgical blade or electro-surgery, which uses an alternating current to destroy skin tissue.
- The inverter changes the solar direct current into the alternating current used by most household appliances.
- That is not the case for alternating current, a subentry under alternate, or the array to be found under pass, which includes in passing (participle/gerund), make a pass at (noun), pass by (verb), passed pawn (adjective/past participle). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 3
- This is an alternating current generator.
- alternating current
- It works by moving a magnet through a coil of wire and produces a alternating current which must then be rectified by the use of diodes.
- Another problem stems from the use of an inverter that supplies alternating current in square waves, rather than the rounded, sine waves produced by conventional generating equipment.
- My first up-close and personal moments with alternating current started on the day I plugged in my slightly used, sky-blue, single-pickup Hohner electric guitar.
- Like an alternating current, the atmosphere of the reef flickers between urgent desire and cold, murderous cupidity.
- rectify alternating current
