return current

English

Noun

return current (plural return currents)

(electrical engineering) The electric current in a circuit which flows back to its source, or to earth.
- 1963 March, “The Clacton express electric multiple-units enter service”, in Modern Railways, page 174:
  The return current is fed from the transformer to the wheels through brushes on each axle of the motor coach.

References

“return current”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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