1. A flow of electricity through a conductor
   "the current was measured in amperes"
   - electric current 
2. A steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
   "the raft floated downstream on the current"
   - stream 
3. Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
   "the current of history"
   - stream, flow

1. Occurring in or belonging to the present time
   "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position"

Sounds like: currant

Derived forms: currents

See also: actual, afoot, circulating, contemporary, currency, currently, currentness, incumbent, latest, live, modern, new, occurrent, ongoing, on-going, online, on-line, present-day, topical, underway, up-to-date, up-to-dateness, up-to-the-minute

Type of: course, electrical phenomenon, flow, flowing, line

Antonym: noncurrent

Encyclopedia: Current

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