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Current   /kˈərənt/  /kərnt/  /kˈɑrənt/   Listen
adjective
Current  adj.  
1.
Running or moving rapidly. (Archaic) "Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord." "To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns."
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." "Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current." "His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him."
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."
Account current. See under Account.
Current money, lawful money.


noun
Current  n.  
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." "The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction... the navigator should know."
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.
Synonyms: Stream; course. See Stream.





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... spite of increase in productive power, do wages tend to a minimum which will give but a bare living? The answer of current political economy is that wages are fixed by the ratio between the number of labourers and the amount of capital devoted to the employment of labour, and constantly tend to the lowest amount on which labourers will consent to live and reproduce; because the increase in ...
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... of astronomy led him to accomplish one important change, for which we have reason to remember him to-day. He reformed the calendar, substituting the one used until 1582 (known from him as the Julian calendar) for that which was then current. [Footnote: The Gregorian calendar was introduced in the Catholic states of Europe in 1582, but owing to popular prejudice England did not begin to use it until 1752, in which year September 3d became, by act of Parliament, ...
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... had its chance, nor seems yet to have had another. Other towns, some not far from it, lying nearer the main lines of travel, have been swept into the current of modern life, but not yet Clarendon. There the grass grows thicker in the streets. The meditative cows still graze in the vacant lot between the post-office and the bank, where the public library was to stand. The old academy has grown more dilapidated than ever, and a large section ...
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... induces counter currents underneath, and they stimulate all the sensory nerves we've got—of our eyes and ears and noses as well as our skin. Every nerve reports its own kind of sensation. Run current over your tongue, and you taste. Induce a current in your eyes, and you see flashes of light. So the beam makes all our senses report everything they're capable of reporting, true or not, and we're blinded and deafened. Then the nerves to our muscles report to them that they're to contract, ...
— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
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