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current

noun
/ˈkʌɹənt/UK/ˈkʊɹənt/

Etymology

From Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Old French curant (French courant), present participle of courre (“to run”), from Latin currere (“to run”) (present participle currens). Doublet of courant.

  1. derived from currō — “to run”
  2. derived from corant
  3. inherited from curraunt

Definitions

  1. The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.

    • The mantle is important to our discussion in that its viscous nature can conduct convection currents that have effects on the crust upon which we live.

  2. The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially…

    The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) ellipsis of ocean current.

  3. Ellipsis of electric current.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A tendency or a course of events.

    2. Existing or occurring at the moment.

      • current events
      • current leaders
      • current negotiations

    3. Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment

      Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment; having currency.

      • current affairs
      • current bills and coins
      • current fashions

    4. Electric

      Electric; of or relating to electricity.

      • current bill
      • current shock

    5. Running or moving rapidly.

      • For here we met, some ten or twelve of us, / To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.

    6. A surname.

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Derived

account current, alternating current, Birkeland current, branch current method, California Current, call-with-current-continuation, charged current, convective current, countercurrent, crosscurrent, current balance, current divider, currentless, current money, current sheet, current-traditionalism, current-traditionalist, current-traditional rhetoric, currentwise, dark current, direct current, displacement current, down-current, downcurrent, Earth current, eddy current, electrical current, electric current, fault current, Foucault current, four-current, funny current, induced current, injury current, intercurrent, Japan Current, Kirchhoff's current law, leakage current, macrocurrent, mesh current · +52 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at current. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at current. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at current

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA