Current
//kəˈrɛɳʈ//
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The word "current" can be used as noun, adjective, proper noun and adjective.
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Birkeland current California Current Earth current Foucault current Japan Current Kirchhoff's current law Okhotsk Current Oyashio Current Planck current Red Current Swift Current Y current account current alternating current branch current method call-with-current-continuation charged current cocurrent convective current countercurrent crosscurrent current account current affairs current asset current balance current divider current events current liability current money current ratio current sheet current shock current thing current year current-traditional rhetoric current-traditionalism current-traditionalist currentless currently currentness currentwise dark current direct current discurrent displacement current down-current downcurrent eddy current electric current electrical current fault current four-current funny current induced current injury current intercurrent leakage current macrocurrent mesh current microcurrent multicurrent nanocurrent neutral current noncurrent ocean current overcurrent pacemaker current palaeocurrent paleocurrent pass current phasing current photocurrent price current price-current pyroclastic density current residual-current device return current rip current saturation current sneak current subcurrent substorm current wedge supercurrent telluric current thermocurrent tidal current transcranial direct current stimulation turbidity current uncurrent undercurrent upcurrent zoocurrent
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ac ac dc adjective affairs air air floe air movement also also electricity alternating alternating electricity alternation ampere amps contemporary contemporary now contemporary time course currant currency date dc description eddies eddy electric electric charge electric flow electric flowing electric force electric movement electric voltage electric wave electric waves electrical electrical flow electrical measure electrical movement electrical output electrical pulse electrical term electricity electricity also electricity flow electricity measurement electricity movement electron electron flow electron movement electron wave electrons energy event events fast fast water floe flow flow electricity flowing flowing electricity flowing thing flowing water fluctuation fluid force frame going going on happening happening now high high voltage in electricity in ocean in rivers in water issues items latest latest news like like currant like news like present like river like voltage like waves liquid measure measurement modern modernity moment motion movement moving moving electrons moving water new news news event news events news items newspaper nothing now now event now events ocean ocean flow ocean force ocean movement ocean pull ocean stream ocean undertow ocean wave oceans other other currant output paper path power present present adjective present events present news present now pull pulling pulling water pulse recent recent news relevance relevant respell respell currant right right now river river eddy river flow river movement river speed rivers rivers flow rivers ocean saying saying now sea sea force sea movement shock shocks something new speed stream stream movement strength strong strong pull strong stream strong wave tendency term tide tides time time description time frame timeliness timeliness now today today news today paper together topical undertow underwater underwater flow underwater movement underwater tide unit up up date up to updated voltage voltage measurement volts volts amps water water electricity water flow water motion water movement water oceans water path wave wave movement waves whats whats happening wind wires yak
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