Definition of "current" []

• Belonging to the present time: current events; current leaders. (adjective)
• Being in progress now: current negotiations. (adjective)
• Passing from one to another; circulating: current bills and coins. (adjective)
• Prevalent, especially at the present time: current fashions. See Synonyms at prevailing. (adjective)
• Running; flowing. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "An electric current produces a magnet, and _a magnet also may be made to produce an electric current_."
• "Now when a current acts by induction upon conducting matter lateral to it, it probably acts upon the electricity in that conducting matter whether it be in the form of a _current_ or"
• "# Alternatively, we could just use makeobj in the commands below ... current = ` pwd ` if [ "$srcFolder" = "$current"]; then cb fi"