Definition of current

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Current (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..

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Gurgle :: Gurgle (v. i.) To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones..
Coin :: Coin (n.) A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense..
Instant :: Instant (a.) Present; current.
Vampire :: Vampire (n.) A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730..
Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out..
Recurrent :: Recurrent (a.) Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
Euripus :: Euripus (n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux..
Occurrent :: Occurrent (n.) Anything that happens; an occurrence.
Rheotrope :: Rheotrope (n.) An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current.
Interruption :: Interruption (n.) Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption..
Douche :: Douche (n.) A jet or current of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; a douche bath.
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens..
Stem :: Stem (v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current..
Hydrogalvanic :: Hydrogalvanic (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or consisting of, electricity evolved by the action or use of fluids; as, hydrogalvanic currents..
Wind :: Wind (n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation..
Fan :: Fan (n.) Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel..
Bajocco :: Bajocco (n.) A small copper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half..
Rheometry :: Rheometry (n.) The measurement of the force or intensity of currents.
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