fluctuating current

[¦flək·chə‚wād·iŋ ′kə·rənt]

(electricity)

Direct current that changes in value but not at a steady rate.

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Gunn Effect

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Due to the nonlinear fluctuating current characteristics of the EAF, it generates more voltage fluctuations and flicker frequency components at the PCC.

Determination of Flicker Contribution Level by Using Proposed Index

Therefore, a fluctuating current may flow between the instrument and the probe station.

Improving current measurements on nanoelectronic and molecular electronic devices: enhancements in nanotechnology, particularly in nanoelectronics, are forcing scientists to develop efficient ways to deliver adequate current flow

bombing began, oil for delivery six months later and beyond was priced at a relatively low level--$23 to $25 per barrel--compared to the wildly fluctuating current price of $30 to $40 per barrel.

Oil and the Persian Gulf crisis

Left without parents at a young age, Booth is in some ways still a child in tenuous control of his emotions, and Mos Def is admirably sensitive to the fluctuating currents of his psychic temperature.

An uptown move pays off for this `underdog'

The inevitable result of a highly electrified world, electromagnetic interference caused by alternating or fluctuating currents creates one woe after another.