WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
ed′dy cur′rent, 
  1. Electricityan electric current in a conducting material that results from induction by a moving or varying magnetic field.
  • 1590–1600, for an earlier sense

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
eddy current n
  1. an electric current induced in a massive conductor, such as the core of an electromagnet, transformer, etc, by an alternating magnetic field

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