Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

displacement current

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English

Syllables: dis-place-men-t cur-rent
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The direction and rate of change of the electric displacement field at a given point of space and time. It can be expressed as a vector.

Example Sentences

"When a capacitor is charging, a current flows into one of its two plates, a displacement current flows from that plate to its other plate, and a current flows out of that other plate."

Inflected Forms

displacement currents (plural)

Questions

What does displacement current mean?: The direction and rate of change of the electric displacement field at a given point of space and time. It can be expressed as a vector.

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