currently
current
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkʌr.ənt/ us /ˈkɝː.ənt/

currentnoun[C] (FLOW)

a movement of water, air, or electricity in a particular direction: 水流;气流;电流
strong currentHe was swept out to sea by the strong current.他被急流冲到了海里。
against the current She was struggling to swim against the current.
with the current The boat sank after drifting with the current for a few hours.
Switch off the electric current before changing the bulb.换灯泡前先把电源切断。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Electricity & electronics
anodize
anti-static
arc
bitstream
brownout
capacitance
chargeable
electricity
high-voltage
homing
induction
linesman
magnet
multimeter
negatively
non-electric
non-electrical
non-electronic
solid-state
transistorized

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Floods, tides & currents

currentnoun[C] (FEELING)

a particular opinion or feeling that a group of people have: 思潮;潮流
There is a growing current of support for environmental issues among voters.投票者对环境问题的支持呈增长趋势。

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accepted wisdom
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creed
denial
have/take a notion to do somethingidiom
helicopter view
heretical
heretically
hot take
point of view
pole
politics
posture
pretension
prism
proposition
tick

current | American Dictionary

current
adjective
us/ˈkɜr·ənt, ˈkʌr·ənt/

currentadjective (HAPPENING NOW)

of the present time or most recent:
Under current state law, students can drop out of school legally at age 17.
current
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɜr·ənt, ˈkʌr·ənt/

currentnoun[C] (MOVEMENT)

a movement of water or air:
The boat drifted with the current until it was miles from shore.
physics
Electric current is the passage of electricity through a wire.

current | Business English

current
adjective[ usually before noun ]
uk /ˈkʌrənt/us
happening or existing at the present time:
A lot of businesses are being hurt by the current high interest rates.
The group said it would return to profit within the current financial year.
They offered to pay me twice my current salary.
Who is the current editor of the Times?
current
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkʌrənt/us
an opinion or a feeling that a group of people have:
The general current of opinion is against such drastic cuts in public spending.
There is a growing current of support for environmental issues among consumers.

Examples of current

current
Synaptic currents generated by neuronal acetylcholine receptors sensitive to alphabungarotoxin.
Outward currents were observed in all recorded bipolar cells.
To answer this question, pericyte currents were monitored under voltage-clamp conditions.
Moreover, these currents contained substrands that were variously more prominent at different times and in different places, depending on the circumstances.
The simulation analysis clarified the role of individual ionic currents in the membrane conductance with different glutamate levels.
The islands create a diverse water circulation system with weak currents.
Ionic currents of cultured horizontal cells isolated from white perch retina.
Such circulation has been observed in the atmospheric gravity currents.
Three cardboard panels surrounded the apparatus to reduce the influence of air currents; the fourth side was left open for observations.
The variation reflects the heating of the surface during the daytime, leading to convective currents pushing the mixing height upwards.
The next step is to set included currents at the remaining valid points that fill the vacuum propagation volume.
With simple rules of assignment on boundary faces, the method also handles field contributions of electrode currents.
Limitations in the model such as skin depth issues and modeled sur face currents have been accounted for and discussed in the numerical simulations.
Early in the nuclear fusion program, it was realized that modest currents are required to confine plasma that could produce energy gain.
The simulation is set up for each of the three kinds of currents and the velocity profile is calculated.
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Collocations withcurrent

current

These are words often used in combination with current.

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beam current
For relativistic beams, a ray-tracing code must also find the distribution of beamcurrent to calculate magnetic forces.
current opinion
Currentopinion holds that the endocardial thickening is a non-specific reaction to stress in the ventricular wall.
current thought
Overall the book presents a comprehensive account of the state of knowledge in this particular field in 1960 and the direction that currentthought was then taking.
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