adj.
- happening or belonging to the present time:
current affairs.
- in general use.
n.
- a body of water or air moving in a definite direction through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement.
- a flow of electricity which results from the ordered directional movement of electrically charged particles.
▸a quantity representing the rate of flow of electric charge, usually measured in amperes.
Etymology
ME (in the sense ‘running, flowing’): from OFr. corant ‘running’, from courre ‘run’, from L. currere ‘run’.