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Related / Similar Words: stream, flow, electric current

Definition:

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

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";

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

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

See Also: modern, new

Hyponyms: tidal flow, tidal current, riptide, rip current, undertide, undercurrent, torrent, violent stream, eddy, twist, whirlpool, vortex, maelstrom, ocean current, juice, thermionic current

Attributes: currentness, currency, up-to-dateness

Derivational Morphology: stream, well out

Anagrams: unerect

Language Translations:
Albanian: lumë		Catalan: riu
Chinese: 電流 and 流		Croatian: struja
Danish: aktuel		Dutch: huidig and stroming and stroomsterkte
Esperanto: fluo		Finnish: sähkövirta and tämänhetkinen and virta
French: courant		German: gegenwärtig and Strom and Stromstärke
Hungarian: áram		Indonesian: arus
Interlingua: currente		Italian: corrente
Japanese: 電流 and 流れ		Lithuanian: srovė
Polish: bieżący and prąd		Portuguese: corrente
Romanian: curent		Russian: нынешний and поток and ток
Slovak: tok		Slovene: tok
Spanish: corriente		Swedish: nuvarande and ström
Tagalog: agos		Telugu: ఇటీవలి and ప్రవాహం

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