dark current

British  

noun

1. the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated

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Example Sentences

But there’s a dark current running underneath that perfect cookie-cutter image.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2024

And it will roil a dark current of 21st-century politics, concerning which some 19th-century history is germane.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2021

This occurs because the photonic collection area of each resonator is much larger than its electrical area, thus substantially reducing the dark current of the device13.

From Nature • Mar. 25, 2018

There’s a dark current of guilt running through this book that makes me terribly sad for Levy and that may terrify readers who have the temerity to wish for both exciting lives and stable families.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2017

Why is it that all the fast-moving fish of the dark current have purple backs and usually purple stripes or spots?

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway