direct currentin a sentence
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Nikola Tesla's alternating current proved a better solution than Thomas Edison's direct current.
direct current = an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
- And of course Edison urged the fair to use direct current, DC, the prevailing standard.† (source)
- "It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it," Fang said.† (source)
- On one side was General Electric Company, which had been created when J. P. Morgan took over Edison's company and merged it with several others and which now proposed to install a direct current system to light the fair.† (source)