CURRENT

adj. common, prevalent; present, recent; popular

n. flow (of water, electricity, etc.); process; tendency; direction

Current may refer to:Current affairsElectric currentCurrent (fluid)Ocean currentCurrent (mathematics), geometrical current in differential topologyThe conserved current or Noether current in physics and mathematics, as a result of Emmy Noether's theorem.Present (time)Current, Incorporated, a stationery manufacturer
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Noun
1. a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes"
(synonym) electric current
(hypernym) electrical phenomenon
(hyponym) juice
2. a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"
(synonym) stream
(hypernym) flow, flowing
(hyponym) tidal flow, tidal current
3. 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"
(synonym) stream, flow
(hypernym) course, line
Adjective
1. occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position"
(antonym) noncurrent
(similar) actual
(see-also) modern
(attribute) currentness, currency, up-to-dateness

(a.)
Running or moving rapidly.
  

(a.)
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.
  

(a.)
Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
  

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

(a.)
Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
  

(a.)
Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
  

(a.)
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.
  

<electronics> The quantity of charge per unit time, measured in Amperes (Amps, A). By historical convention, the sign of current is positive for currents flowing from positive to negative potential, but experience indicates that electrons are negatively charged and flow in the opposite direction.
(1995-10-05)