alternating current

English

Alternative forms

• ac, AC, a.c., A.C., a-c (abbreviation)

Pronunciation

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Noun

alternating current (countable and uncountable, plural alternating currents, abbreviation AC)

1. (physics) An electric current in which the direction of flow of the electrons reverses periodically.

Translations

electric current that reverses direction periodically

• Afrikaans: wisselstroom (af)
• Arabic: تَيَّار مُتَرَدِّد m (tayyār mutaraddid)
• Armenian: փոփոխական հոսանք (pʻopʻoxakan hosankʻ)
• Asturian: corriente alterno
• Azerbaijani: dəyişən cərəyan
• Basque: korronte aldizkatzaile
• Belarusian: пераменны ток m (pjeramjenny tok)
• Bengali: পরিবর্তী তড়িৎ প্রবাহ (poriborti toṛit probaho)
• Bulgarian: проме́нлив ток m (proménliv tok)
• Catalan: corrent altern m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 交流電 / 交流电 (zh) (jiāoliúdiàn), 交流 (zh) (jiāoliú)

• Chuvash: улшӑнуллӑ ток (ulš̬ănullă t̬ok)
• Czech: střídavý proud m
• Danish: vekselstrøm (da) c
• Dutch: wisselstroom (nl) m
• Esperanto: alterna kurento
• Estonian: vahelduvvool (et)
• Faroese: vendistreymur m
• Finnish: vaihtovirta (fi)
• French: courant alternatif (fr) m
• Galician: corrente alterna f
• Georgian: ცვლადი დენი (cvladi deni)
• German: Wechselstrom (de) m
• Greek: εναλλασσόμενο ρεύμα (el) n (enallassómeno révma)
• Greenlandic: vekselstrømmi
• Haitian Creole: kouran altènatif
• Hawaiian: uila au māʻaloʻalo
• Hebrew: זרם חילופין (he)
• Hindi: प्रत्यावर्ती धारा (hi) f (pratyāvartī dhārā)
• Hungarian: váltóáram (hu), váltakozó áram (hu)
• Icelandic: riðstraumur
• Ido: korento alternanta (io)
• Indonesian: arus bolak-balik (id)
• Irish: sruth ailtéarnach m
• Italian: corrente alternata (it) f
• Japanese: 交流電流 (ja) (こうりゅうでんりゅう, kōryū denryū), 交流 (ja) (こうりゅう, kōryū)
• Kazakh: айнымалы ток (aynımalı tok)
• Korean: 교류 (ko) (gyoryu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تەزووی گۆڕاو (tezûy gorraw)

• Latvian: maiņstrāva f
• Lithuanian: kintamoji elektros srovė f
• Macedonian: наизменична струја f (naizmenična struja)
• Malagasy: zitina miherina
• Malay: arus ulang-alik (ms)
• Malayalam: പ്രത്യാവർത്തിധാരാ വൈദ്യുതി (pratyāvaṟttidhārā vaidyuti)
• Māori: iahiko hohoko
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vekselstrøm m

  Nynorsk: vekselstraum m

• Persian: جریان متناوب (fa)
• Polish: prąd przemienny m inan, prąd zmienny m inan
• Portuguese: corrente alternada (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਬਿਜਲੀ ਦੀ ਬਦਲਵੀਂ ਧਾਰਾ (bijlī dī badalvī̃ dhārā)

  Western Punjabi: آلٹرنیٹنگ کرنٹ (ālṭrneṭng krnṭ)

• Romanian: curent alternativ (ro) m, curent electric alternativ (ro) m
• Russian: знакопереме́нный ток m (znakopereménnyj tok) периодический двунаправленный переменный ток m (periodičeskij dvunapravlennyj peremennyj tok)
• Serbo-Croatian: izmjenična električna struja f, izmjenična struja f
• Slovak: striedavý prúd m
• Slovene: izmenični električni tok m
• Spanish: corriente alterna f
• Swedish: växelström (sv) c
• Tagalog: salisihang saloy
• Tamil: மாறுதிசை மின்னோட்டம் (ta) (māṟuticai miṉṉōṭṭam)
• Thai: ไฟฟ้ากระแสสลับ
• Tibetan: སྤེལ་རྒྱུན་གློག་རྒྱུན (spel rgyun glog rgyun)
• Turkish: alternatif akım (tr)
• Ukrainian: змінний струм m (zminnyj strum)
• Uzbek: oʻzgaruvchan tok
• Vietnamese: điện xoay chiều
• Welsh: cerrynt tonnog, cerrynt eiledol

See also

• direct current
• generator
• transformer
• inverter