Definition of current

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Current (a.) General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc..

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Vein :: Vein (n.) A train of association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course..
Torrent :: Torrent (n.) Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence..
Passable :: Passable (a.) Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current.
Galvanize :: Galvanize (v. t.) To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.
Tempest :: Tempest (n.) An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm..
Counter :: Counter (a.) Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue..
Stream :: Stream (n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano..
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..
Thermoelectric :: Thermoelectric (a.) Pertaining to thermoelectricity; as, thermoelectric currents..
Thermoelectrometer :: Thermoelectrometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the strength of an electric current in the heat which it produces, or for determining the heat developed by such a current..
Spermist :: Spermist (n.) A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body..
Rheochord :: Rheochord (n.) A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit..
Confluent :: Confluent (n.) The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc..
Draught :: Draught (n.) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney..
Flicker :: Flicker (v. i.) To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light..
Set :: Set (n.) Direction or course; as, the set of the wind, or of a current..
Occurrent :: Occurrent (n.) One who meets; hence, an adversary..
Fan :: Fan (n.) To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat..
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..
Incurrent :: Incurrent (a.) Characterized by a current which flows inward; as, the incurrent orifice of lamellibranch Mollusca..
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