資料來源 : pyDict

當前的湧流,趨勢,流流通的,現在的,最近的

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Current \Cur"rent\, n. [Cf. F. courant. See {Current}, a. ]
   1. 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.

            Two such silver currents, when they join, Do glorify
            the banks that bound them in.         --Shak.

            The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents,
            whose direction . . . the navigator should know.
                                                  --Nichol.

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

   {Current meter}, an instrument for measuring the velocity,
      force, etc., of currents.

   {Current mill}, a mill driven by a current wheel.

   {Current wheel}, a wheel dipping into the water and driven by
      the current of a stream or by the ebb and flow of the
      tide.

   Syn: Stream; course. See {Stream}.

Current \Cur"rent\ (k?r"rent), a. [OE. currant, OF. curant,
   corant, p. pr. of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run,
   from L. currere; perh. akin to E. horse. Cf. {Course},
   {Concur}, {Courant}, {Coranto}.]
   1. Running or moving rapidly. [Archaic]

            Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord.
                                                  --Gower.

            To chase a creature that was current then In these
            wild woods, the hart with golden horns. --Tennyson.

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

   3. 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.

            That there was current money in Abraham's time is
            past doubt.                           --Arbuthnot.

            Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current.
                                                  --Shak.

            His current value, which is less or more as men have
            occasion for him.                     --Grew.

   4. Commonly estimated or acknowledged.

   5. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic;
      passable.

            O Buckingham, now do I play the touch To try if thou
            be current gold indeed.               --Shak.

   {Account current}. See under {Account}.

   {Current money}, lawful money. --Abbott.

資料來源 : WordNet®

current
     adj : occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current
           events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations";
           "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current
           position" [ant: {noncurrent}]

current
     n 1: a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was
          measured in amperes" [syn: {electric current}]
     2: a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft
        floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of
        air" [syn: {stream}]
     3: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive
        events or ideas; "two streams of development run through
        American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of
        thought"; "the current of history" [syn: {stream}, {flow}]

資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

current
     
         The quantity of {charge} per unit time, measured
        in Amperes (Amps, A).  By historical convention, the sign of
        current is positive for currents flowing from positive to
        negative {potential}, but experience indicates that electrons
        are negatively charged and flow in the opposite direction.
     
        (1995-10-05)