How to Use direct current in a Sentence

direct current

noun

• During the night it may be connected with any source of direct current to be recharged.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2023
• The fastest speed, direct current fast charging equipment, um, that can get up to 80% in 20 minutes to an hour.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
• Some of the fastest, known as direct current chargers, can charge a battery up to 80 percent in 20 minutes to an hour.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
• The rest is for the DC fast chargers, or direct current chargers, which can power up a car with more than 80 miles of range in just a half-hour.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 July 2021
• Level three, also known as direct current fast chargers (DCFC), is all in the name.
  — Isis Briones, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2021
• There was one big problem with Edison’s plan to wire cities: His patents relied on direct current.
  — Sam Kean, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2021
• The Lown device, called a cardioverter, used direct current and precise timing to avoid the danger points.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2021
• Consider the return of the direct current (DC) standard.
  — Mike Hughes, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• When the solar panel collects sunlight, it is absorbed as a direct current or DC.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• There are some losses transmitting the power to the part where the microwave power is turned into a direct current power.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2018
• Within seconds of bringing a fish to the surface, the crew moves it to a stun table that renders the animal unconscious with about 10 volts of direct current.
  — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018
• The funding is to install up to 38 more direct current (DC) fast charging stations in public places along certain sections of highways outside the Twin Cities.
  — Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• That will be the world’s longest undersea high voltage direct current cable.
  — Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2022
• This generates an electric field that escorts the waves through the circuit as a direct current, which may then power electrical devices.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2020
• In a motor using direct current, which comes from a battery, the switching is done with a commutator, a type of mechanical switch.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
• This is then converted into direct current by a rectifier, and is used to top up the vehicle’s battery.
  — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2017
• Direct Connect is planning to break ground in the next year or so on a high-voltage direct current transmission line that will bring wind and solar energy across the Upper Midwest.
  — Gregory Krieg, Laura Dolan and Jason Carroll, CNN, 10 June 2021
• However, Earth's currents are driven by direct currents, whereas Jupiter's are not.
  — Fox News, 17 July 2019
• People seem to be less happy with level two chargers, which will refill EVs at a slower rate than a dedicated DC (direct current) fast charger.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2022
• The original plan called for the construction of two transmission lines, one alternating current and one direct current.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
• To avoid large losses of power over long distances, the electricity must be converted from alternating current to direct current, and then back again at the other end.
  — New York Times, 4 Jan. 2022
• The electricity that comes out of a wall outlet is an alternating current (AC) and needs to be converted to direct current (DC) to operate your devices.
  — David Kender, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2019
• Tesla has more direct current fast-charging plugs in the U.S. than any other network, and its stations are in prime locations along freeway travel corridors.
  — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 20 June 2023
• As the pendulum swings back and forth with the animal’s movement, the ring creates an alternating current in the coil—and a voltage-doubling circuit transforms it into direct current.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
• What if alternating-current inventor Nikola Tesla came forward in time and discovered that the cars named for him run on direct current?
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
• The night before the event, the organizers realized that the hotel's electric supply was direct current and the ranges required alternating current.
  — Judy Buchenot, Naperville Sun, 13 July 2018
• When someone plugs in a car to charge it, alternating current (AC) power is converted into direct current voltage, which is stored inside the car’s battery.
  — Aarian Marshall Matt Simon, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2022
• Tesla has more direct current fast-charging plugs in the United States than any other network, and its stations are in prime locations along freeway travel corridors.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
• There are high voltage wiring systems, on-board chargers that convert alternating current power to direct current to charge the batteries.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 6 Oct. 2023
• But connecting your car’s battery (and its direct current) to your house (which runs on alternating current) involves some extra equipment.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024