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 negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position"; "current events"; "the current topic"
    
2. Generally accepted or used at the moment
   "What's the current thinking on climate change?"

Sounds like: curran

Derived forms: currents

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

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

Antonym: noncurrent

Encyclopedia: Current, Mike