·adj Running or moving rapidly.
II. Current ·adj Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
III. Current ·adj Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
IV. Current ·adj Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
V. Current ·adj General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, ·etc.
VI. Current ·adj 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.
VII. Current ·adj 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.