current

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Belonging to the present time: current events; current leaders.
2. adj. Being in progress now: current negotiations.
3. adj. Passing from one to another; circulating: current bills and coins.
4. adj. Prevalent, especially at the present time: current fashions. See Synonyms at prevailing.
5. adj. Running; flowing.
6. n. A steady, smooth onward movement: a current of air from a fan; a current of spoken words. See Synonyms at flow.
7. n. The part of a body of liquid or gas that has a continuous onward movement: rowed out into the river's swift current.
8. n. A general tendency, movement, or course. See Synonyms at tendency.
9. n. Electricity A flow of electric charge.
10. n. Electricity The amount of electric charge flowing past a specified circuit point per unit time.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Running; moving; flowing; passing.
2. Hence Passing from one to another; especially, widely circulated; publicly known, believed, or reported; common; general; prevalent; as, the current ideas of the day.
3. Passing from hand to hand; circulating: as, current coin.
4. Established by common estimation or consent; generally received: as, the current value of coin.
5. Entitled to credit or recognition; fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; genuine.
6. Now passing; present in its course: as, the current month or year. [In such expressions as 6th current (or curt.), current is really an adjective, the expression being short for 6th day of the current month.]
7. n. A flowing; a flow; a stream; a passing by a continuous flux: used of fluids, as water, air, etc., or of supposed fluids, as electricity.
8. n. Specifically, a portion of a large body of water or of air moving in a certain direction: as, ocean-currents. The set of a current is that point of the compass toward which the waters run; the drift of a current is the rate at which it runs. The principal ocean-currents are the Gulf Stream, the equatorial currents of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, and the Japanese, Peruvian, Brazilian, Labrador, Antarctic, and Australian currents.
9. n. Course in general; progressive movement or passage; connected series: as, the current of time.
10. n. General or main course; general tendency: as, the current of opinion.
11. n. The amount of depression given to a roof to cause the water which falls upon it to flow in a given direction.
12. To make current or common; establish in common estimation; render acceptable.
13. n. An obsolete spelling of currant.

Wiktionary

1. n. The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.
2. n. electricity The time rate of flow of electric charge.
3. n. A tendency or a course of events.
4. adj. Existing or occurring at the moment.
5. adj. Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Archaic Running or moving rapidly.
2. adj. Now passing, as time.
3. adj. Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common.
4. adj. Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
5. adj. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
6. n. 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; ; that which resembles a stream in motion.
7. n. General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a flow of electricity through a conductor
2. n. a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
3. adj. occurring in or belonging to the present time
4. n. dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas