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Running or moving rapidly. |
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Now passing, as time; as, the current month. |
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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. |
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Commonly estimated or acknowledged. |
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Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic;
passable. |
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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. |
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General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and
connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion,
etc. |