WordNet
current electricity
n. a flow of electric charge [syn: dynamic electricity]
Usage examples of "current electricity".
The smokestacks were throwing out their columns of inky oil smoke, telling of power feeding into the turbines that furnished the station with a steady, dependable supply of high-voltage, direct-current electricity.
Before executions, it was soaked in brine to better conduct the charge of direct-current electricity that ran through the wire, through the sponge, and into the condemned man's brain.
And farther up the South Fork Valley was the world's first generating plant, which produced alternating-current electricity for the mines.