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cur·rent    Audio Help   (kûr'ənt, kŭr'-)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
    1. Belonging to the present time: current events; current leaders.
    2. 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
    1. A flow of electric charge.
    2. 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.]

cur'rent·ly adv., cur'rent·ness n.
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