current

The mantle is important to our discussion in that its viscous nature can conduct convection currents that have effects on the crust upon which we live.

2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:

The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.

The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) short for ocean current.

Symbol: I (inclined upper case letter "I")

Units:

SI: ampere (A)

CGS: esu/second (esu/s)

(electricity) The amount of electric charge flowing in each unit of time.

en-noun

current (countable and uncountable, plural currents)

→ Punjabi: kraṉṭ

Gurmukhi script: ਕਰੰਟ

Shahmukhi script: کرنٹ

rrýmë

part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction — see also ocean current

courant (with both the hurry–furry merger and cure–fir merger)

From Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Old French curant (French courant), present participle of courre (“to run”), from Latin currere (“to run”) (present participle currens). Doublet of courant.


current

current events

current leaders

current negotiations

Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

current affairs

current bills and coins

current fashions

That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.

1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:

The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment; having currency.

current bill

current shock

In April and May this year, the average daily current consumption dropped to 55 MU[…]Compared to household electricity charges, the current unit charge used by commercial companies is higher.[…]Electricity consumption is generally higher in summer as compared to monsoon and winter. The use of ACs will increase not only in homes but also in commercial establishments and current consumption will increase.

2021 June 13, Ravali Hymavathi, “Telangana: Even The TSSPDCL Is Facing Heavy Losses Due To Covid-19”, in The Hans India:

(South Asia) Electric; of or relating to electricity.

For here we met, some ten or twelve of us, / To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.

1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 114:

en-adj

current (comparative currenter or more current, superlative currentest or most current)

currenter (comparative)
more current (comparative)
currentest (superlative)
most current (superlative)

ընթացիկ

generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment


current

third-person plural future active indicative of currō