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Current Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Current? [n] a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air" [n] dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history" [n] a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes" [adj] occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Current: actual \| afoot(p) \| circulating(a) \| contemporary \| electric current \| flow \| in progress(p) \| incumbent \| latest \| live \| ongoing \| on-line(a) \| present-day(a) \| prevailing \| prevalent \| rife \| stream \| stream \| topical \| underway \| up-to-date \| up-to-the-minute Related Terms \| Find terms related to Current: a la mode \| absorption current \| AC \| accepted \| accessible \| accidental \| accompanying \| accustomed \| active current \| actual \| ado \| advance \| advised \| affirmed \| affluence \| afflux \| affluxion \| afloat \| afoot \| aim \| air current \| all the rage \| all the thing \| alternating current \| angular motion \| announced \| as is \| ascending \| ascent \| au courant \| au fait \| average \| aware \| axial motion \| azimuth \| backflowing \| backing \| backward motion \| bandied about \| base current \| bearing \| being \| bent \| besetting \| broadcast \| brought to notice \| Brownian movement \| bruited about \| career \| cathode current \| circulated \| circumstantial \| climbing \| coeval \| collector current \| common \| common knowledge \| common property \| commonly known \| commonplace \| concourse \| conduction current \| confluence \| conflux \| conformable \| consuetudinary \| contemporaneous \| contemporary \| convection current \| conventional \| course \| crosscurrent \| current of air \| customary \| cycle \| DC \| declared \| defluxion \| delta current \| descending \| descent \| dielectric displacement current \| diffused \| direct current \| direction \| direction line \| displacement current \| disseminated \| distributed \| doing \| dominant \| downdraft \| downflow \| downpour \| downward motion \| draft \| drift \| driftage \| ebbing \| eddy current \| electric current \| electric stream \| electron cloud \| electron flow \| electron gas \| electron stream \| emission current \| epidemic \| established \| eventuating \| everyday \| exciting current \| existent \| existing \| extant \| fall wind \| familiar \| fashionable \| flight \| flood \| flow \| flow of air \| flowing \| fluency \| flux \| following wind \| forward motion \| free alternating current \| fresh \| galvanic current \| generally accepted \| glacial movement \| going about \| going around \| going on \| gush \| habitual \| hackneyed \| happening \| head wind \| heading \| helmsmanship \| high-frequency current \| hip \| household \| idle current \| immanent \| immediate \| in being \| in circulation \| in effect \| in existence \| in fashion \| in force \| in hand \| in print \| in style \| in the air \| in the know \| in the news \| in the wind \| in vogue \| incidental \| inclination \| indraft \| induced current \| induction current \| inflow \| informed \| inhalation \| inrush \| inspiration \| instant \| ionization current \| jetstream \| juice \| katabatic wind \| known \| latest \| lay \| lie \| line \| line of direction \| line of march \| living \| low-frequency current \| made public \| magnetizing current \| main current \| mainstream \| mill run \| millrace \| mod \| modern \| modish \| monsoon \| motion \| mounting \| movement \| movement of air \| multiphase current \| navigation \| new \| newfashioned \| normal \| normative \| notorious \| oblique motion \| obtaining \| occasional \| occurring \| on \| on foot \| ongoing \| onrush \| onward course \| open \| ordinary \| orientation \| outflow \| output current \| pandemic \| passage \| passing \| piloting \| plate current \| platitudinous \| plunging \| point \| popular \| posted \| predominant \| predominating \| prescribed \| prescriptive \| present \| present-age \| present-day \| present-time \| prevailing \| prevalent \| proclaimed \| progress \| propagated \| proverbial \| public \| published \| pulsating direct current \| quarter \| race \| radial motion \| rampant \| random motion \| range \| reactive current \| received \| reflowing \| refluence \| reflux \| regnant \| regression \| regular \| regulation \| reigning \| reported \| resultant \| retrogression \| rife \| rising \| rotary current \| routine \| ruling \| rumored \| run \| running \| rush \| set \| sideward motion \| simultaneous \| single-phase alternating current \| sinking \| smart \| soaring \| space charge \| spate \| spread \| standard \| stated \| steerage \| steering \| stereotyped \| sternway \| stock \| stray current \| stream \| stream of air \| stylish \| subsiding \| subsistent \| subsisting \| surge \| swing \| tail wind \| taking place \| talked about \| talked-about \| talked-of \| telecast \| televised \| tendency \| tenor \| that be \| that is \| the general tendency \| the main course \| thermionic current \| thermoelectric current \| three-phase alternating current \| tide \| time spirit \| time-honored \| tone \| topical \| track \| traditional \| traject \| trajet \| trend \| trendy \| trite \| truistic \| under the sun \| under way \| undercurrent \| undertow \| universal \| universally admitted \| universally recognized \| updraft \| up-to-date \| up-to-datish \| up-to-the-minute \| upward motion \| usual \| vernacular \| voltaic current \| water flow \| watt current \| way \| well-kenned \| well-known \| well-recognized \| well-understood \| whispered \| whispered about \| widely known \| widespread \| wind \| wonted \| Zeitgeist See Also \| course \| eddy \| electrical phenomenon \| flow \| flowing \| line \| maelstrom \| modern \| new \| ocean current \| rip current \| riptide \| thermionic current \| tidal current \| tidal flow \| torrent \| twist \| undercurrent \| undertide \| violent stream \| vortex \| whirlpool Current In Webster's Dictionary \Cur"rent\ (k?r"rent), a. [OE. currant, OF. curant, corant, p. pr. of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. akin to E. horse. Cf. {Course}, {Concur}, {Courant}, {Coranto}.] 1. Running or moving rapidly. [Archaic] Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. --Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. --Tennyson. 2. Now passing, as time; as, the current month. 3. Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history. That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt. --Arbuthnot. Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. --Shak. His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him. --Grew. 4. Commonly estimated or acknowledged. 5. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable. O Buckingham, now do I play the touch To try if thou be current gold indeed. --Shak. {Account current}. See under {Account}. {Current money}, lawful money. --Abbott. \Cur"rent\, n. [Cf. F. courant. See {Current}, a. ] 1. A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity. Two such silver currents, when they join, Do glorify the banks that bound them in. --Shak. The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction . . . the navigator should know. --Nichol. 2. General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc. {Current meter}, an instrument for measuring the velocity, force, etc., of currents. {Current mill}, a mill driven by a current wheel. {Current wheel}, a wheel dipping into the water and driven by the current of a stream or by the ebb and flow of the tide. Syn: Stream; course. See {Stream}.

Current Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Current?

[n] a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"
[n] dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
[n] a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes"
[adj] occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position"

Current In Webster's Dictionary

\Cur"rent\ (k?r"rent), a. [OE. currant, OF. curant,
corant, p. pr. of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run,
from L. currere; perh. akin to E. horse. Cf. {Course},
{Concur}, {Courant}, {Coranto}.]
1. Running or moving rapidly. [Archaic]

         Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord.
                                               --Gower.

         To chase a creature that was current then In these
         wild woods, the hart with golden horns. --Tennyson.

2. Now passing, as time; as, the current month.

3. Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand;
   circulating through the community; generally received;
   common; as, a current coin; a current report; current
   history.

         That there was current money in Abraham's time is
         past doubt.                           --Arbuthnot.

         Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current.
                                               --Shak.

         His current value, which is less or more as men have
         occasion for him.                     --Grew.

4. Commonly estimated or acknowledged.

5. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic;
   passable.

         O Buckingham, now do I play the touch To try if thou
         be current gold indeed.               --Shak.

{Account current}. See under {Account}.

{Current money}, lawful money. --Abbott.


\Cur"rent\, n. [Cf. F. courant. See {Current}, a. ]
1. A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of
   fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a
   stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of
   water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion;
   as, a current of electricity.

         Two such silver currents, when they join, Do glorify
         the banks that bound them in.         --Shak.

         The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents,
         whose direction . . . the navigator should know.
                                               --Nichol.

2. General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and
   connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of
   opinion, etc.

{Current meter}, an instrument for measuring the velocity,
   force, etc., of currents.

{Current mill}, a mill driven by a current wheel.

{Current wheel}, a wheel dipping into the water and driven by
   the current of a stream or by the ebb and flow of the
   tide.

Syn: Stream; course. See {Stream}.

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