Current
Definition of Current
Cur´rent Pronunciation: k?r´rent | a. | 1. | Running or moving rapidly. | | 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. | | 4. | Commonly estimated or acknowledged. | | 5. | Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable. | | n. | 1. | | | 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. | | 2. | General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc. |
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AC, Brownian movement, DC, Zeitgeist, a la mode, absorption current, 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, 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, convection current, conventional, course, crosscurrent, current of air, customary, cycle, 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, 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-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, 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, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, updraft, 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
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