Usually means: Flow of electric charge continuously.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. current: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. current: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. current: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. current: Collins English Dictionary
  5. current: Vocabulary.com
  6. Current, current: Wordnik
  7. current: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Current, current: Wiktionary
  9. current: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. current: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. current: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. current: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Current (AIP subsidiary), Current (album), Current (company), Current (electricity), Current (fluid), Current (magazine), Current (mathematics), Current (newspaper), Current (ocean), Current (platform), Current (stream), Current (water), Current, The Current (magazine), The Current (newspaper), The Current (radio program), The Current (song), The Current: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Current: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. current: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. current: Rhymezone
  17. current: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. current: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Current: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. current: Free Dictionary
  21. current: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Current, current: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. current: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. current: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. current: Wordnik
  26. current: Dictionary.com
  27. current (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Current (disambiguation), current: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. current: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. current: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. Current (disambiguation), Current (electric), Current (electricity), Current (fluid), current: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. Hair Facts (No longer online)
  4. Current (disambiguation), Current (electric), Current (electricity), -current, current: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. current: Idioms

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  3. Current: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Current: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  5. current: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. Current: Physic and Astronomy Glossary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Current: Skydiving Glossary

Tech (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. current: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. current: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  5. Current (Young): Glossary of Cheese Terms
  6. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  7. Explosives (No longer online)
  8. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  9. CURRENT: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  10. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  12. Current: Data Acquisition
  13. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  14. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)
  15. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  16. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  17. CURRENT (I): Power Engineering
  18. Electrical Engineering Glossary (No longer online)
  19. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
▸ noun:  The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) short for ocean current.
▸ noun:  (electricity) the amount of electric charge flowing in each unit of time.
▸ noun:  a tendency or a course of events
▸ adjective:  Existing or occurring at the moment.
▸ adjective:  Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
▸ adjective:  (South Asia) Electric; of or relating to electricity.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
flow, circulating, stream, underway, on-line, afoot, live, rife, up-to-date, prevailing, more...

Opposite:
outdated, obsolete, old-fashioned, ancient, passé

Types:
direct current, alternating current, pulsating current, more...

Phrases:
current account, Current density, electric current, current assets, current liabilities, more...

Adjectives:
electric, direct, electrical, strong, total, constant, main, primary, maximum, swift, induced

Colors:
    teal,     aqua,     turquoise,     cyan,     electric blue, more...


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flow, circulating, stream, underway, on-line, afoot, live, rife, up-to-date, prevailing, more...

Opposite:
outdated, obsolete, old-fashioned, ancient, passé

Types:
direct current, alternating current, pulsating current, more...

Phrases:
current account, Current density, electric current, current assets, current liabilities, current events, alternating current, direct current, current trends, current affairs, current income, electrical current, more...

Adjectives:
electric, direct, electrical, strong, total, constant, main, primary, maximum, swift, induced

Colors:
    teal,     aqua,     turquoise,     cyan,     electric blue, more...



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