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say it: KUR-uhnt
current is a noun and adjective meaning "a flow of electricity through a conductor". It is pronounced /ˈkɝənt/ — KUR-uhnt. It carries 4 recorded senses.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for current come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.