cur·rent (kûr  nt, k r-)adj. 1. a. Belonging to the present time: current events; current leaders. b. 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 a. A flow of electric charge. b. 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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| Noun | 1. | currentness - the property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term" nowness, presentness - the quality of being the present; "a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past"- R.E.Spiller contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness, modernism - the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village" |
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