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intermittent current

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noun

Electricity.
  1. a direct current that is interrupted at intervals.


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This intermittent current is sent to an amplifier, relayed thence to a line of electromagnets, each of which controls a needle in the loom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Any intermittent current can be transformed as regards its intensity.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald

The effect of capacity upon an intermittent current is clearly shown in Fig.

From Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 by Martin, Marcus J.

The chemical action that takes place is therefore very small, as the intermittent current sent out from the transmitter in some cases only lasts from 1/50th to 1/100th a second.

From Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 by Martin, Marcus J.

The function of the transmitter is therefore to send to the relay R an intermittent current of varying duration.

From Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 by Martin, Marcus J.

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