Current

Running or moving rapidly.

Now passing, as time; as, the current month.

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.

Commonly estimated or acknowledged.

Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.

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.

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

A flow of electric charge

a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes"

a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water"

occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position"