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currents

currents is the plural of current.

Meaning of current

Noun

current (countable and uncountable, plural currents)

  1. The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
    • The mantle is important to our discussion in that its viscous nature can conduct convection currents that have effects on the crust upon which we live.2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition
  2. The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) ellipsis of ocean current.
    Synonyms:
    flow, stream
  3. (South-Asia, broadly) electricity, power in general.
  4. A tendency or a course of events.
    Synonyms:
    flow, stream, tendency

See all 9 meanings of current

Proper noun capitalized: Currents

Currents

  1. (plural) plural of Current

Phrases with currents

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Questions about currents

What is currents the plural of?
Currents is the plural of current.
What part of speech is currents?
Currents is a proper noun.

Words near currents in the dictionary

  1. currenter
  2. currentest
  3. currentless
  4. currently
  5. currentness
  6. currents
  7. currentwise
  8. Currer
  9. Curreri
  10. Curreris
  11. Currers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: currents (page history and authors); Currents (page history and authors); current (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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