Cur·rent, n.
 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.
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