Dictionary Definition
current adj : occurring in or belonging to the
present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current
negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's
current position" [ant: noncurrent]
Noun
1 a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the
current was measured in amperes" [syn: electric
current]
2 a steady flow (usually from natural causes);
"the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of
air" [syn: stream]
3 dominant course (suggestive of running water)
of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run
through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of
thought"; "the current of history" [syn: stream, flow]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From curraunt < curant (French: courant) present participle of courre "to run" < currere "to run".Noun
Synonyms
- (part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction): flow, stream
- (flow of electric charge): electric current
- (measurement of the rate of flow of electric charge): electric current
- (tendency or course of events): flow, stream, tendency
Derived terms
Translations
part of a fluid that moves continuously in a
certain direction
- Albanian: lumë
- Catalan: riu , corrent
- Chinese: 流 水流 (shuiliu, shiu3liu2)
- Croatian: struja
- Czech: proud
- Dutch: stroming , stroom
- Esperanto: fluo
- Finnish: virta
- French: courant
- German: Strom
- Hawaiian: au
- Hungarian: áram
- Indonesian: arus
- Interlingua: currente
- Italian: corrente
- Japanese: 流れ (nagare)
- Lithuanian: srovė
- Maori: au
- Persian:
- Polish: prąd
- Portuguese: corrente
- Romanian: curent
- Russian: поток (potók) , течение (t'ečénije)
- Slovak: tok , prúd
- Slovene: tok
- Spanish: corriente
- Swedish: ström , strömning
- Tagalog: agos
- Telugu: ప్రవాహం (pravaahaM)
flow of electric charge
measurement of the rate of flow of electric
charge
- Chinese: 電流 (dianliu, dian4liu2)
- Dutch: stroomsterkte
- Finnish: sähkövirta
- French: courant
- German: Stromstärke
- Interlingua: currente
- Japanese: 電流 (denryū)
- Lithuanian: srovė
- Polish: prąd
- Portuguese: corrente
- Romanian: curent
- Russian: ток (tok)
- Slovak: tok , prúd
- Swedish: ström
tendency or a course of events
Adjective
- existing or occurring at the moment
- current events
- current leaders
- current negotiations
- current leaders
- current events
- generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment
- current bills and coins
- current fashions
- current bills and coins
Synonyms
- (existing or occurring at the moment): present
- (generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment): fashionable, prevailing, prevalent, rife, up-to-date
Antonyms
- (existing or occurring at the moment): future, past
- (generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment): out-of-date, unfashionable
Translations
existing or occurring at the moment
- Czech: současný
- Danish: aktuel
- Dutch: huidig, huidige, actueel
- Finnish: tämänhetkinen, nykyinen
- French: courant
- German: gegenwärtig
- Interlingua: currente
- Italian: corrente
- Polish: bieżący , bieżąca , bieżące
- Portuguese: corrente, em curso
- Russian: нынешний (nýn'ešnij), текущий (t'ekúš'ij)
- Slovak: súčasný
- Swedish: nuvarande
- Telugu: ఇటీవలి (iTeevali)
generally accepted, used, practiced, or
prevalent at the moment
- ttbc Lithuanian: einamas , esamas
- ttbc Spanish: actual
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Current may refer to:
- Current affairs
- Electric current
- Current (fluid)
- Current (mathematics), geometrical current in differential topology
- The conserved current or Noether current in physics and mathematics, as a result of Emmy Noether's theorem
- Present (time)
- Current, Incorporated, a stationery manufacturer
- Current Magazine, a student newsmagazine
- Current (newspaper), a newspaper about the public broadcasting industry
- Current Publishing puts out six newspapers in southern Maine
- Currents (periodical), the official international trade law journal of South Texas College of Law
- KCMP is a radio station known as "The Current"
- Current TV, a cable television network owned by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore
- "The Current (song)," a song by the Blue Man Group
See also
current in Arabic: تيار
current in Czech: Proud
current in Danish: Strøm
current in German: Strom
current in Modern Greek (1453-): Ρεύμα
current in Persian: کورانت
current in Finnish: Virta
current in French: Courant
current in Galician: Corrente
current in Hebrew: זרם
current in Dutch: Stroom
current in Low German: Stroom
current in Polish: Current
current in Albanian: Rryma
current in Simple English: Current
current in Turkish: Akım
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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,
contemporary,
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, new, 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, 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, tide, 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-date, 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