current

UK /ˈkʌɹənt/ · /ˈkʌɹɪnt/

Etymology From Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Old French curant (French courant), present participle of courre (“to run”), from Latin currere (“to run”) (present participle currens). Doublet of courant.

Derived terms

76 terms

account current, alternating current, Birkeland current, branch current method, California Current, call-with-current-continuation, charged current, convective current, countercurrent, crosscurrent, current balance, current divider, currentless, current money, current sheet, current-traditionalism, current-traditionalist, current-traditional rhetoric, currentwise, dark current, direct current, displacement current, down-current, downcurrent, Earth current, eddy current, electrical current, electric current, fault current, Foucault current, four-current, funny current, induced current, injury current, intercurrent, Japan Current, Kirchhoff's current law, leakage current, macrocurrent, mesh current, microcurrent, multicurrent, nanocurrent, neutral current, ocean current, Okhotsk Current, overcurrent, Oyashio Current, pacemaker current, palaeocurrent, paleocurrent, pass current, phasing current, photocurrent, Planck current, price-current, pyroclastic density current, Red Current, residual-current device, return current, rip current, saturation current, sneak current, subcurrent, substorm current wedge, supercurrent, Swift Current, telluric current, thermocurrent, tidal current, transcranial direct current stimulation, turbidity current, undercurrent, upcurrent, Y current, zoocurrent

Related terms

course, currency