intermittent current

American  

noun

Electricity.

1. a direct current that is interrupted at intervals.

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Example Sentences

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 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.

The inertia or "lag" of a cell produces upon an intermittent current an effect similar to that produced by the capacity Fig.

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

It consists essentially of a needle, rapidly jogged up and down by means of an electro-magnet actuated by an intermittent current of electricity.

From Heroes of the Telegraph by Munro, John