current
 cur·rent (kûrʹənt, kŭrʹ-)adj.
1.
a. Belonging to the present time:
current events; current leaders.
b. Being in progress now:
current negotiations.
2. Passing from one to another; circulating:
current bills and coins.
3. Prevalent, especially at the present time:
current fashions.
See Synonyms at prevailing.
4. Running; flowing.n.
1. A steady, smooth onward movement:
a current of air from a fan; a current of spoken words.
See Synonyms at flow.
2. The part of a body of liquid or gas that has a continuous onward movement:
rowed out into the river's swift current.
3. A general tendency, movement, or course. See Synonyms at tendency.
4. Symbol i, I Electricity.
a. A flow of electric charge.
b. The amount of electric charge flowing past a specified circuit point per unit time. [Middle English curraunt, from Old French corant, present participle of courre, to run, from Latin currere. See kers- in Indo-European Roots.] curʹrent·ly adv.curʹrent·ness n.
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