current

Adjective

• occurring in or belonging to the present time
  • current events
    
  • the current topic
    
  • current negotiations
    
  • current psychoanalytic theories
    
  • the ship's current position
    

Noun

• dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
  • two streams of development run through American history
    
  • stream of consciousness
    
  • the flow of thought
    
  • the current of history
    

• a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
  • the raft floated downstream on the current
    
  • he felt a stream of air
    
  • the hose ejected a stream of water
    

• a flow of electricity through a conductor
  • the current was measured in amperes
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  stream , flow , electric current