a. - Running or moving rapidly.
a. - Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
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.
a. - Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
a. - Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
a. - A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.
a. - General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.