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English Dictionary: current	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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" Antonym(s): noncurrent n a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes" Synonym(s): current, electric current a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water" Synonym(s): current, stream 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" Synonym(s): stream, flow, current
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Current \Cur"rent\ (k?r"rent), a. [OE. currant, OF. curant, corant, p. pr. of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. akin to E. horse. Cf. {Course}, {Concur}, {Courant}, {Coranto}.] 1. Running or moving rapidly. [Archaic] Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. --Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. --Tennyson. 2. Now passing, as time; as, the current month. 3. 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. That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt. --Arbuthnot. Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. --Shak. His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him. --Grew. 4. Commonly estimated or acknowledged. 5. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable. O Buckingham, now do I play the touch To try if thou be current gold indeed. --Shak. {Account current}. See under {Account}. {Current money}, lawful money. --Abbott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Current \Cur"rent\, n. [Cf. F. courant. See {Current}, a. ] 1. 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. Two such silver currents, when they join, Do glorify the banks that bound them in. --Shak. The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction . . . the navigator should know. --Nichol. 2. General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc. {Current meter}, an instrument for measuring the velocity, force, etc., of currents. {Current mill}, a mill driven by a current wheel. {Current wheel}, a wheel dipping into the water and driven by the current of a stream or by the ebb and flow of the tide. Syn: Stream; course. See {Stream}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
current The quantity of {charge} per unit time, measured in Amperes (Amps, A). By historical convention, the sign of current is positive for currents flowing from positive to negative {potential}, but experience indicates that electrons are negatively charged and flow in the opposite direction. (1995-10-05)