What (who) is current - definition
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Current
The adjustment, or effects of a continuous attempt at readjustment of
potential difference by a conductor, q. v., connecting two points of
different potential. A charged particle or body placed in a field of
force tends to move toward the oppositely charged end or portion of the
field. If a series of conducting particles or a conducting body are held
so as to be unable to move, then the charge of the field tends, as it
were, to move through it, and a current results. It is really a
redistribution of the field and as long as such redistribution continues
a current exists. A current is assumed to flow from a positive to a
negative terminal; as in the case of a battery, the current in the outer
circuit is assumed to flow from the carbon to the zinc plate, and in the
solution to continue from zinc to carbon. As a memoria technica the zinc
may be thought of as generating the current delivering it through the
solution to the carbon, whence it flows through the wire connecting
them. (See Ohm's Law--Maxwell's Theory of Light--Conductor-Intensity.)
[Transcriber's note: Supposing electric current to be the motion of
positive charge causes no practical difficulty, but the current is
actually the (slight) motion of negative electrons.]
current
I. a.
1.
Common, general, popular, rife, generally received, in every one's mouth.
2.
Circulating (as money), passing from hand to hand.
3.
Present, existing, instant, now passing.
II. n.
1.
Stream, moving volume (of fluid).
2.
Tide, running water.
3.
Course, progression.
Current
·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.
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Current
Currents, Current or The Current may refer to:
Pronunciation examples for current
1. current.
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2. And that current, electrical current,
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3. current times--
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4. current form.
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5. current earnings.
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Examples of use of current
1. "Current crops are adapted to the current climate.
2. Three years ago IBM had working capital, surplus current assets over current liabilities, of $10 billion.
3. Manhit warned the current crisis will get worse as long as the current system is maintained.
4. Current plans call for reducing the current 20 combat brigades to 15 by next summer.
5. There are those in the bank‘s management who want to continue along the current path with the current management.