RUTHWELL, a parish, in the county of Dumfries containing the village of Clarencefield, 7Â½ miles (W. by N.) from Annan.
This is the basis of generation in rotating machines. You can produce a current in a conductor by connecting opposite ends to the + and-poles of a battery, but don't try this with your car battery or you will burn out the conductor and produce a lot of heat. It is safer to use a small dry battery.
electric current. noun, Electricity. 1. the time rate of flow of electric charge, in the direction that a positive moving charge would take and having magnitude equal to the quantity of charge per unit time: measured in amperes. Also called current, electricity.