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81Current sheet — The heliospheric current sheet results from the influence of the Sun s rotating magnetic field on the plasma in the interplanetary medium[1] A current sheet is an electric current that is confined to a surface, rather than …
82Electric match — An electric match is a device that uses an externally applied electric current to ignite a combustible compound.UseElectric matches can be used in any application where source of heat is needed at a precisely controlled point in time, typically… …
83electric furnace — a furnace in which the heat required is produced through electricity. [1880 85] * * * Chamber heated with electricity to very high temperatures, for melting and alloying metals and refractories. Modern electric furnaces generally are either arc… …
84electric charge — Physics. one of the basic properties of the elementary particles of matter giving rise to all electric and magnetic forces and interactions. The two kinds of charge are given negative and positive algebraic signs: measured in coulombs. Also… …
85Current collector — Chicago Transit Authority third rail contact shoe of Chicago L car …
86electric chair — noun an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person (Freq. 1) the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair • Syn: ↑chair, ↑death chair, ↑hot seat • Hypernyms: ↑instrument of execution …
87Current integrator — A current integrator is an electronic device performing a time integration of an electric current, thus measuring a total electric charge.One application of current integration is in ion beam deposition, where the measured charge directly… …
88electric furnace — noun any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current • Hypernyms: ↑furnace • Hyponyms: ↑Stassano furnace, ↑electric arc furnace * * * noun : a furnace that is heated usually to very high temperatures by an electric current and… …
89current — Synonyms and related words: AC, Brownian movement, DC, Zeitgeist, a la mode, absorption current, accepted, accessible, accidental, accompanying, accustomed, active current, actual, ado, advance, advised, affirmed, affluence, afflux, affluxion,… …
90Current–voltage characteristic — Figure 1. I–V curve of a P–N junction diode (not to scale). A current–voltage characteristic is a relationship, typically represented as a chart or graph, between an electric current and a corresponding voltage, or potential difference. In… …
