1. (a.) Running or moving rapidly.

2. (a.) Now passing, as time; as, the current month.

3. (a.) 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.

4. (a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged.

5. (a.) 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; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.

7. (a.) General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.