Thesaurus: current

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1. a. Running or moving rapidly.
2. a. Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
3. a. Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
4. a. Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
5. a. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
6. a. A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.
7. a. General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
8. adj. occurring in or belonging to the present time
9. n. a flow of electricity through a conductor
10. n. a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
11. n. dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas