Definition of current

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Current (a.) 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..

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Concurrent :: Concurrent (n.) One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent..
Rheostat :: Rheostat (n.) A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will..
Bezant :: Bezant (n.) A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants..
Rheometer :: Rheometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood current in the arteries.
Gale :: Gale (n.) A moderate current of air; a breeze.
Rumor :: Rumor (n.) A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth; -- in this sense often personified..
Electromotor :: Electromotor (n.) A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity.
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.
Consentaneous :: Consentaneous (a.) Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent.
Passant :: Passant (v. i.) Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.
Rheometer :: Rheometer (n.) An instrument for measuring currents, especially the force or intensity of electrical currents; a galvanometer..
Regurgitation :: Regurgitation (n.) the reversal of the natural direction in which the current or contents flow through a tube or cavity of the body.
Overfall :: Overfall (n.) A turbulent surface of water, caused by strong currents setting over submerged ridges; also, a dangerous submerged ridge or shoal..
Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current..
Polarization :: Polarization (n.) An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell..
Entrain :: Entrain (v. t.) To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam..
Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface.
Trapdoor :: Trapdoor (n.) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door.
Concurrentness :: Concurrentness (n.) The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence.
Galvanize :: Galvanize (v. t.) To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.
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