alternating current

English

alternating current (countable and uncountable, plural alternating currents) (abbreviated as AC)

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

electric current that reverses direction periodically

Arabic: تَيَّار مُتَرَدِّد‎ m (tayyār mutaraddid)
Bulgarian: проме́нлив ток m (proménliv tok)
Catalan: corrent altern m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 交流電／交流电 (zh) (jiāoliúdiàn), 交流 (zh) (jiāoliú)
Czech: střídavý proud m
Danish: vekselstrøm (da) c
Dutch: wisselstroom (nl) m
Estonian: vahelduvvool (et)
Faroese: vendistreymur m
Finnish: vaihtovirta (fi)
French: courant alternatif (fr) m
German: Wechselstrom (de) m
Greek: εναλλασσόμενο ρεύμα n (enallassómeno révma)
Greenlandic: vekselstrømmi
Hungarian: váltóáram (hu), váltakozó áram (hu)
Indonesian: arus bolak-balik (id)
Irish: sruth ailtéarnach m
Japanese: 交流電流 (こうりゅうでんりゅう, kōryū denryū), 交流 (ja) (こうりゅう, kōryū)
Malay: arus ulang-alik (ms)
Maori: iahiko hohoko
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vekselstrøm m
Nynorsk: vekselstraum m
Polish: prąd przemienny m, prąd zmienny m
Portuguese: corrente alternada (pt) f
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)
Slovak: striedavý prúd m
Spanish: corriente alterna f
Swedish: växelström (sv) c
Turkish: alternatif akım (tr)