current

See also: Current

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌɹənt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌɹənt/, /ˈkɝɹənt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

current (countable and uncountable, plural currents)

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

   Synonyms: flow, stream

2. (electricity) the time rate of flow of electric charge.

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

   SI: ampere (A)

   CGS: esu/second (esu/s)

   Synonym: electric current

3. a tendency or a course of events

   Synonyms: flow, stream, tendency

Derived terms

• ocean current
• tidal current
• undercurrent

 

Related terms

• course
• currency

 

Translations

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

• Albanian: lumë (sq) f
• Arabic: تَيَّار m (tayyār)
• Armenian: հոսանք (hy) (hosankʻ)
• Assamese: সোঁত (xü̃t)
• Bau Bidayuh: selog, sobag
• Belarusian: пато́к m (patók), цячэ́нне n (cjačénnje)
• Brunei Bisaya: sinolog
• Bulgarian: стру́я (bg) f (strúja)
• Burmese: ယဉ် (my) (yany)
• Catalan: riu (ca) m, corrent (ca) m
• Cebuano: sulog
• Central Melanau: aruih
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水流 (zh) (shuǐliú)

• Czech: proud (cs) m
• Dutch: stroming (nl) f, stroom (nl) m
• Esperanto: fluo
• Estonian: hoovus
• Finnish: virta (fi), virtaus (fi)
• French: courant (fr) m
• Friulian: corint f
• Galician: corrente (gl) f
• Georgian: დინება (dineba), ნაკადი (naḳadi)
• German: Strömung (de) f
• Greek: ρεύμα (el) n (révma)

  Ancient: ῤεῦμα n (reûma)

• Hawaiian: au
• Hebrew: זֶרֶם (he) m (zerem)
• Hindi: प्रवाह (hi) m (pravāh), धारा (hi) f (dhārā)
• Hungarian: áram (hu), áramlat (hu), (in certain phrases, e.g. "drift with the current") ár (hu)
• Iban: arus, arong
• Indonesian: arus (id)
• Interlingua: currente
• Iranun: reges
• Irish: sruth m
• Italian: corrente (it) f
• Japanese: 流れ (ja) (ながれ, nagare)
• Kazakh: ағым (ağym)
• Khmer: ចរន្ (ca’rɑn), ស្រោតា (km) (sraodaa)
• Kimaragang: linogod
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• Korean: 흐름 (ko) (heureum)
• Lao: ກະແສ (lo) (ka sǣ)
• Latin: flumen (la) n, cursus m, aestus (la) m (current of sea)
• Latvian: straume f
• Lithuanian: srovė f, tėkmė f
• Lotud: sinolog
• Macedonian: струја f (struja)
• Malay: arus
• Manx: stroo m
• Maori: au
• Mongolian: урсгал (mn) (ursgal)
• Norman: couothant m (Jersey), halant m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: strøm (no) m

  Nynorsk: straum m

• Occitan: corrent m
• Old Irish: sruth m or n
• Persian: جریان (fa) (jarayân), جاری (fa) (jâri)
• Polish: prąd (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: corrente (pt) f
• Romanian: curent (ro) m, șuvoi (ro) n, flux (ro) n
• Rungus: murullun
• Russian: пото́к (ru) m (potók), тече́ние (ru) n (tečénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: sruth m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стру́ја f

  Roman: strúja (sh) f

• Slovak: tok m, prúd m
• Slovene: tok (sl) m
• Spanish: corriente (es) f
• Swahili: mkondo (sw)
• Swedish: ström (sv) c, strömning (sv) c
• Tagal Murut: aug
• Tagalog: agos (tl)
• Telugu: ప్రవాహం (te) (pravāhaṁ)
• Thai: กระแส (th) (grà-sɛ̌ɛ)
• Turkish: akıntı (tr), akım (tr)
• Ukrainian: струм m (strum), поті́к (uk) m (potík), течія́ f (tečijá)
• Urdu: دھارا f (dhārā)
• Vietnamese: dòng (vi)

time rate of flow of electric charge

• Albanian: rryme f
• Arabic: تَيَّار m (tayyār)
• Armenian: հոսանք (hy) (hosankʻ)
• Azerbaijani: cərəyan (az)
• Belarusian: ток m (tok)
• Bengali: প্রবাহ (probaho)
• Bulgarian: ток (bg) m (tok)
• Burmese: လျှပ်စီး (my) (hlyapci:)
• Central Melanau: karen
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電流／电流 (zh) (diànliú), 电流 (zh) (diànliú)

• Czech: proud (cs) m
• Danish: strømstyrke c, strøm (da) c
• Dutch: stroom (nl) m
• Estonian: elektrivool (et)
• Finnish: virta (fi), sähkövirta (fi)
• French: courant (fr) m
• Galician: corrente (gl) f
• Georgian: დენი (deni)
• German: Strom (de) m
• Greek: εντάση f (entási)
• Hebrew: זֶרֶם (he) m (zerem)
• Hindi: धारा (hi) f (dhārā), प्रवाह (hi) m (pravāh)
• Hungarian: áram (hu)
• Interlingua: currente
• Italian: corrente (it) m
• Japanese: 電流 (ja) (でんりゅう, denryū)
• Kazakh: ток (tok), электр тогы (élektr togy)
• Korean: 전류 (ko) (jeollyu)
• Kyrgyz: ток (ky) (tok)
• Lao: ກະແສໄຟຟ້າ (lo) (ka sǣ fai fā)
• Latvian: strāva f
• Lithuanian: srovė f
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• Macedonian: струја f (struja)
• Malay: arus
• Mongolian: гүйдэл (mn) (güjdel)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: strøm (no) m, strømstyrke m

  Nynorsk: straum m, straumstyrke m

• Occitan: corrent m
• Persian: جریان (fa) (jarayân)
• Polish: prąd (pl) m inan, natężenie prądu n
• Portuguese: corrente (pt) f, amperagem (pt) f
• Romanian: curent (ro) m
• Russian: ток (ru) m (tok)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стру́ја f

  Roman: strúja (sh) f

• Silesian: sztrům m
• Slovak: prúd m
• Slovene: tok (sl) m
• Spanish: corriente (es) f
• Swahili: mkondo (sw)
• Swedish: ström (sv) c
• Tagalog: kaampiran
• Tajik: ҷараён (tg) (jarayon)
• Tatar: агым (tt) (ağım)
• Telugu: కరెంటు (kareṇṭu)
• Thai: กระแส (th) (grà-sɛ̌ɛ), กระแสไฟฟ้า (grà-sɛ̌ɛ-fai-fáa)
• Turkish: akım (tr)
• Turkmen: tok
• Ukrainian: струм m (strum)
• Uyghur: توك (tok)
• Uzbek: tok (uz)
• Vietnamese: dòng điện (vi)

tendency or a course of events

• Bulgarian: ход (bg) m (hod)
• Finnish: suuntaus (fi)
• French: courant (fr) m
• Greek: ρεύμα (el) n (révma)
• Hungarian: alakulás (hu)
• Italian: corrente (it) m
• Japanese: 流れ (ja) (nagare)
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• Latvian: gaita f
• Lithuanian: eiga f, tėkmė f
• Persian: مسیر (fa)
• Romanian: curs (ro) n, mers (ro) n, manieră (ro) f
• Russian: ход (ru) m (xod)
• Swedish: riktning (sv) c, strömning (sv) c, tendens (sv) c

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• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} srovė f
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• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} tok m, ^{(please verify)} prúd

Adjective

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

1. existing or occurring at the moment
   • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

     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.

   current events;  current leaders;  current negotiations

   Synonyms: present; see also Thesaurus:present

   Antonyms: future, past

2. generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment
   • (Can we date this quote by Arbuthnot and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

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

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

     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.

   current affairs;  current bills and coins;  current fashions

   Synonyms: fashionable, prevailing, prevalent, rife, up-to-date; see also Thesaurus:fashionable

   Antonyms: out-of-date, unfashionable; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable

3. (obsolete) running or moving rapidly
   • (Can we date this quote by Gower and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Like the current fire, that renneth / Upon a cord.

   • (Can we date this quote by Tennyson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.

   Synonym: speeding

Derived terms

• current account
• current events
• currently
• currentness
• price current

 

Translations

existing or occurring at the moment

• Arabic: جَارٍ (ar) (jārin)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: цяпе́рашні (cjapjérašni), бягу́чы (bjahúčy)
• Bulgarian: текущ (bg) (tekušt), сегашен (bg) (segašen)
• Catalan: actual (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 活期 (zh) (huóqī), 通用 (zh) (tōngyòng), 現在的／现在的 (zh), 现在的 (zh) (xiànzài de)

• Czech: současný (cs) m
• Danish: aktuel (da), nuværende
• Dutch: huidig (nl), huidige (nl), actueel (nl)
• Esperanto: nuntempa
• Finnish: ajankohtainen (fi), tämänhetkinen (fi), nykyinen (fi)
• French: présent (fr), actuel (fr), courant (fr)
• Friulian: corint
• Galician: actual (gl)
• Georgian: მიმდინარე (mimdinare), ამჟამინდელი (amžamindeli), ახლანდელი (axlandeli)
• German: gegenwärtig (de)
• Greek: παρών (el) (parón), τρέχων (el) (tréchon), τωρινός (el) (torinós)
• Hungarian: jelenlegi (hu), aktuális (hu)
• Interlingua: currente
• Italian: corrente (it), attuale (it)
• Japanese: 現行 (ja) (げんこう, genkō), 現在 (ja) (げんざい, genzai), 当座 (ja) (とうざ, tōza)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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• Korean: 현행의 (ko) (hyeonhaeng'ui), 현재의 (ko) (hyeonjae'ui)
• Latvian: pašreizējs, esošs
• Lithuanian: einamasis (lt), dabartinis (lt)
• Maori: onāianei
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: aktuell (no), nåværende, dagsaktuell

  Nynorsk: aktuell, noverande, dagsaktuell

• Occitan: actual
• Persian: کنونی (fa) (konuni)
• Polish: bieżący (pl), aktualny (pl)
• Portuguese: corrente (pt), em curso, atual (pt) n
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} actual (ro) m or n, ^{(please verify)} curent (ro) m or n, ^{(please verify)} în curs , ^{(please verify)} care se întâmplă
• Russian: ны́нешний (ru) (nýnešnij), теку́щий (ru) (tekúščij), тепе́решний (ru) (tepérešnij) (colloquial)
• Slovak: súčasný (sk) m
• Spanish: actual (es)
• Swahili: kisasa (sw)
• Swedish: nuvarande (sv)
• Telugu: ఇటీవలి (te) (iṭīvali)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: güncel (tr)
• Ukrainian: тепе́рішній (uk) (tepérišnij), ни́нішній (nýnišnij), пото́чний (potóčnyj)
• Vietnamese: hiện nay (vi), nay (vi)
• Volapük: nuik (vo)

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

• Bengali: আধুনিক (adhunik)
• Bulgarian: общоприет (bg) (obštopriet)
• Catalan: actual (ca)
• Czech: aktuální (cs)
• Dutch: aktueel, aktuele
• Finnish: juokseva (fi), käypä (fi), nykyinen (fi), voimassa oleva, vallitseva (fi)
• French: actuel (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: attuale (it), corrente (it)
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• Latvian: esošs
• Norwegian: aktuell (no), nåværende, gjeldende (no)
• Polish: aktualny (pl)
• Portuguese: actual (pt), atual (pt) (br)
• Russian: совреме́нный (ru) m (sovreménnyj), теку́щий (ru) m (tekúščij)
• Spanish: actual (es)
• Swahili: kisasa (sw)
• Swedish: aktuell (sv), gällande (sv), gångbar (sv), innevarande (sv)
• Turkish: geçerli (tr)

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• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} einamas (lt) m, ^{(please verify)} esamas (lt) m
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Anagrams

• Curtner

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) current

1. third-person plural future active indicative of currō