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n. (electric current English)
Usage examples of "electric currents".
In the conductor, however, we find an electromotive force, to which in itself there is no corresponding energy, but which gives rise - assuming equality of relative motion in the two cases discussed - to electric currents of the same path and intensity as those produced by the electric forces in the former case.
Durban, as he sent more of the paralyzing electric currents into the red imps.
Under ordinary conditions these observations are made by means of rather complicated instruments, and with somewhat doubtful results, by means of thermometrical sounding-leads, the glasses often breaking under the pressure of the water, or an apparatus grounded on the variations of the resistance of metals to the electric currents.
It emits electric currents ordering action like every living brain.
We use low-voltage electric currents to deliver mild shocks during discrimination training.
A tracery of silvery lines stitched out electric currents, crackling unevenly through the salty fluid.
As a starting-point he took the heating effect of electric currents.
From what little knowledge I have of electricity I should have said it was, in part at least, a galvanometer, one of those instruments which register the intensity of minute electric currents.
As a salmon leaps a waterfall, he flashed in seconds from Jupiter to Io, against the descending electric currents of the flux-tube.
They can still be hypnotised, but far more co-operation is needed from the patient, and sometimes the use of mild electric currents.