meaning of current
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.
6. 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.
7. General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
8. a steady flow usually from natural causes; "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of
">air"
Related Words
current | current account | current electricity | current intelligence | current of air | current unit | currently | currentness |
