Definition of current
- a. - Running or moving rapidly.
- a. - Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
- 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.
- a. - Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
- a. - Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic;
passable.
- 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.
- a. - General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and
connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion,
etc.