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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Hydrodynamometer :: Hydrodynamometer (n.) An instrument to measure the velocity of a liquid current by the force of its impact.
Cooperation :: Cooperation (n.) The act of cooperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor..
Languet :: Languet (n.) Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth..
Electrogeny :: Electrogeny (n.) A term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves..
Airy :: Airy (a.) Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; as, an airy situation..
Pyromagnetic :: Pyromagnetic (a.) Acting by the agency of heat and magnetism; as, a pyromagnetic machine for producing electric currents..
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..
Solenoid :: Solenoid (n.) An electrodynamic spiral having the conjuctive wire turned back along its axis, so as to neutralize that component of the effect of the current which is due to the length of the spiral, and reduce the whole effect to that of a series of equal and parallel circular currents. When traversed by a current the solenoid exhibits polarity and attraction or repulsion, like a magnet..
Decursive :: Decursive (a.) Running down; decurrent.
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens..
Instant :: Instant (a.) Present; current.
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..
Henry :: Henry (n.) The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second..
Airless :: Airless (a.) Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air..
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..
Quotation :: Quotation (n.) The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named..
Galvanize :: Galvanize (v. t.) To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.
Run :: Run (n.) State of being current; currency; popularity.
Electro-dynamical :: Electro-dynamical (a.) Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
Current :: 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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