Word Meanings - DISCURRENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not current or free to circulate; not in use. Sir E. Sandys.

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• CURRENTNESS
  1. The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception. 2. Easiness of pronunciation; fluency. When currentness with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness Camden.
• CURRENT
  of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. 1. Running or moving rapidly. Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
• CIRCULATE
  surround, make round, circulari, v. i., to gather into a circle. See 1. To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. Boyle. 2. To pass from place to place, from person to
• CURRENTLY
  In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• JAPAN CURRENT
  A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
• PHASING CURRENT
  The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• PERCURRENT
  Running through the entire length.
• SNEAK CURRENT
  A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
• OSCILLATING CURRENT
  A current alternating in direction.
• NONRECURRENT
  Not recurring.
• THERMOCURRENT
  A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.
• FOUCAULT CURRENT
  An eddy current.
• EXCURRENT
  Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top. (more info) 1. Running or flowing out; as:
• INTERCURRENT
  1. Running between or among; intervening. Boyle. Bp. Fell. Not belonging to any particular season. Said of diseases occurring in the course of another disease. Dunglison.
• DISCURRENT
  Not current or free to circulate; not in use. Sir E. Sandys.
• LUNICURRENT
  Having relation to changes in currents that depend on the moon's phases. Bache.
• EDDY CURRENT
  An induced electric current circulating wholly within a mass of metal; -- called also Foucault current.
• UNDERCURRENT
  1. A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface. Totten. 2. Hence, figuratively, a tendency of feeling, opinion, or the like, in a direction contrary to what is publicly shown; an unseen
• COUNTERCURRENT
  Running in an opposite direction.
• DELTA CURRENT
  The current flowing through a delta connection.