Look up: CURRENT

1. Current
   See electric current.
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2. current
   Coins and paper money in circulation.
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3. Current
   To "be current" is to have jumped recently enough to retain proficiency in the sport. Uncurrent skydivers, depending on their experience, must be supervised to some degree when they resume jumping. See the SIM
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4. Current
   (1) The flowing of water, or other liquid or gas. (2) That portion of a stream of water which is moving with a velocity much greater than the average or in which the progress of the water is principally concentrated. (3) Ocean currents can be classified in a number of different ways. Some important types include the following
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5. current
   [Adjective] Of the present time, something happening now.
   Example: Student numbers are high in the current year.
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6. Current
   Current is often used to transmit signals in noisy environments because it is much less affected by environmental noise pick-up. Before A-D conversion the current signals are usually turned into voltage signals by a current-sensing resistor. The unit is the Ampere (A).
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7. current
   [adj] - occurring in or belonging to the present time 2. [n] - a flow of electricity through a conductor 3. [n] - a steady flow (usually from natural causes)
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8. Current
   The amount of electron charge passing a point in a conductor per unit of time.
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9. Current
   The rate of flow of electrons, the unit of current is the ampere and is equal to the rate of flow 1 coulomb per second. See Direct Current (DC) and Alternating Current (AC).
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10. Current
    A flow of electrical charge through a electronically conductive material. Usually measured in Ampere's (Amps A). 1 amp repesents 6.24 x 1018 'charge carriers', which are mostly electrons or electron deficient atoms.
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11. Current
    Current is often used to transmit signals in noisy environments because it is much less affected by environmental noise pick-up. Before analogue to digital conversion the current signals are usually turned into voltage signals by a current-sensing resistor. See also: Alternating Current, Ampere, Cur...
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12. Current
    a movement of electrons through a conductor. Measured in amperes.
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13. current
    The net transfer of electric charge per unit time. Also called electric current. See also current density.
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14. Current
    It is the current and the duration and rate of its flow which causes a Shock. Increasing the voltage increases the current. Current decreases as resistance increases. Measured in Amps
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15. Current
    The rate of flow of electricity. The unit of the ampere (A) defined as 1 ampere = 1 coulomb per second.
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16. current
    movement of electricity in a medium or along a circuit; the direction of the current is accepted as opposite to that of the motion of negative electricity Category: Electrical engineering and energy • Electricity: transmission of electric power through a conductor:2)Nature: the movement ...
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17. Current
    Cur'rent adjective [ Middle English currant , Old French curant , corant , present participle of curre , corre , F. courre , courir , to run, from Latin currere ; perhaps akin to E. horse
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18. Current
    Cur'rent noun [ Confer French courant . See Current , adjective ] 1. A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part o...
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19. current
    <chemistry> The amount of charge carried per unit time. ... (09 Jan 1998) ...
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20. current
    adjective occurring in or belonging to the present time; `current events`; `the current topic`; `current negotiations`; `current psychoanalytic theories`; `the ship`s current position`
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21. current
    stream noun a steady flow (usually from natural causes); `the raft floated downstream on the current`; `he felt a stream of air`
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22. current
    noun a flow of electricity through a conductor; `the current was measured in amperes`
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23. current
    (kur´әnt) something that flows. electric current.
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24. Current
    • (a.) Running or moving rapidly. • (a.) Now passing, as time; as, the current month. • (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. • (a.) A flowing...
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25. current
    (from the article `jetty`) ...harbours and offshore where harbour facilities are not available. Jettylike structures may be built out at intervals from the banks of rivers ...
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