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
• That will be the world’s longest undersea high voltage direct current cable.
  — Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• When the solar panel collects sunlight, it is absorbed as a direct current or DC.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• 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 Lown device, called a cardioverter, used direct current and precise timing to avoid the danger points.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2021
• Level three, also known as direct current fast chargers (DCFC), is all in the name.
  — Isis Briones, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• However, Earth's currents are driven by direct currents, whereas Jupiter's are not.
  — Fox News, 17 July 2019
• Those excited electrons produce direct current electricity that is transferred out of the panel through wires.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Phase one also included providing direct current fast chargers within one mile of the highway for every 50 miles of road.
  — Hedija Spahalic, Dallas Morning News, 2 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Most new direct current transmission lines in the extra-high-voltage grid should be built above ground, according to a draft law from the economy ministry seen by Bloomberg.
  — Petra Sorge, Bloomberg, 20 Apr. 2026
• 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
• Edison’s genius was less in his lab notebooks — his beloved direct current turned out to be a loser in our alternating-current world — than in his grasp of network effects and utility.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• 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
• This will take more than undersea cables and high voltage direct current lines capable of transmitting power over long distances with minimal leakage.
  — Yew-Poh Mak, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2025
• The link is one of the most innovative high-voltage direct current (HVDC) projects in Europe.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026
• After the voltage is reduced, a set of lower-voltage devices converts this still-high-frequency AC current back to a direct current.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2017
• So the inertia discourse was in part a discussion of how to incorporate direct current sources such as photovoltaics into an AC grid.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 June 2025
• 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
• Earlier this year, researchers in the United Kingdom showed that stimulating the brain with mild direct currents helped people stop stuttering.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 July 2018
• 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
• Level 3 fast chargers send direct current straight to the battery at a much higher wattage, allowing a capable EV to recharge in less than 30 minutes.
  — Peter Douglas, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024