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Currentness

The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.

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Contemporaneity 76% connected

The state of being contemporaneous.

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Fashionableness 76% connected

State of being fashionable.

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Modernism 76% connected

Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.

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Modernity 76% connected

Modernness; something modern.

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Modernness 76% connected

The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty.

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Presentness 76% connected

The quality or state of being present; presence.

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Current 74% connected

Running or moving rapidly.

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Current 74% connected

Running or moving rapidly.

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Current 66% connected

Running or moving rapidly.

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Current 66% connected

Running or moving rapidly.

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Currency 92% connected

A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.

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AC noun · 78% connection

an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"

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Acceptation noun · 78% connection

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.

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Alternating current noun · 78% connection

an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"

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Alternating electric current noun · 78% connection

an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"

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Ampere noun · 78% connection

The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the un…

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Blower noun · 78% connection

A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A…

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Bullionist noun · 78% connection

An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.

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Cathode noun · 78% connection

The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the ele…

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Circulation noun · 78% connection

free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant); "ocean circulation is an important part of global cli…

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Circulatory adjective · 78% connection

Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory disease…

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Countercurrent noun · 78% connection

A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.

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Eddy noun · 78% connection

A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

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Entertainment noun · 78% connection

The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.

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exchange rate noun · 78% connection

How much one currency is worth in another currency.

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Floating exchange rate noun · 78% connection

the exchange rate in which the value of the currency is determined by the free market.; "Floating exchange rates tend to be more volat…

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Fluctuating exchange rate noun · 78% connection

the exchange rate in which the value of the currency is determined by the free market.; "Floating exchange rates tend to be more volat…

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Gresham's Law noun · 78% connection

(economics) the principle that when two kinds of money having the same denominational value are in circulation the intrinsically more…

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Instant adjective · 78% connection

A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant…

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