Definition of current

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Current (a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged.

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Thermocurrent :: Thermocurrent (n.) A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat..
Blower :: Blower (n.) A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc..
Newsy :: Newsy (a.) Full of news; abounding in information as to current events.
Quotation :: Quotation (n.) The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named..
Consentaneous :: Consentaneous (a.) Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent.
Restem :: Restem (v. t.) To stem, or move against; as, to restem a current..
Angelet :: Angelet (n.) A small gold coin formerly current in England; a half angel.
Boil :: Boil (v.) To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils..
Inductor :: Inductor (n.) That portion of an electrical apparatus, in which is the inducing charge or current..
Cob :: Cob (n.) A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d..
Current :: Current (a.) Running or moving rapidly.
Anelectrotonus :: Anelectrotonus (n.) The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it.
Galvanoscope :: Galvanoscope (n.) An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity..
Electro-magnetism :: Electro-magnetism (n.) The magnetism developed by a current of electricity; the science which treats of the development of magnetism by means of voltaic electricity, and of the properties or actions of the currents evolved..
Fall :: Fall (n.) The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice..
Percurrent :: Percurrent (a.) Running through the entire length.
Anode :: Anode (n.) The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode..
Torrent :: Torrent (n.) Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence..
Gale :: Gale (n.) A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east..
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