Noun: current
| Singular | current |
| Plural | currents |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
Nouns inflected like current
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Old French curant (French courant), present participle of courre (“to run”), from Latin currere (“to run”) (present participle currens). Doublet of courant. See: Middle English Nouns '
curraunt', French Nouns '
courant', Latin Nouns '
currō'.