Currents, Current or The Current may refer to:
Science and technology
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Current (fluid)
A current in a fluid is the magnitude and direction of flow within that fluid, such as a liquid or a gas.
Types of fluid currents include:
* Air current
* Boundary current
* Current (stream), a current in a river or stream
* Longshore current
* Oc ...
, the flow of a liquid or a gas
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Air current
In meteorology, air currents are concentrated areas of winds. They are mainly due to differences in atmospheric pressure or temperature. They are divided into horizontal and vertical currents; both are present at mesoscale while horizontal ones d ...
, a flow of air
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Ocean current
An ocean current is a continuous, directed movement of sea water generated by a number of forces acting upon the water, including wind, the Coriolis effect, breaking waves, cabbeling, and temperature and salinity differences. Depth contours, s ...
, a current in the ocean
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Rip current
A rip current, often simply called a rip (or misleadingly a ''rip tide''), is a specific kind of water current that can occur near beaches with breaking waves. A rip is a strong, localized, and narrow current of water which moves directly away ...
, a kind of water current
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Current (stream)
A current in a stream is the flow of water influenced by gravity as the water moves downhill to reduce its potential energy. The current varies spatially as well as temporally within the stream, dependent upon the flow volume of water, stream g ...
, currents in rivers and streams
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Convection current
Convection is single or multiphase fluid flow that occurs spontaneously due to the combined effects of material property heterogeneity and body forces on a fluid, most commonly density and gravity (see buoyancy). When the cause of the convect ...
, flow caused by unstable density variation due to temperature differences
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Current (mathematics)
In mathematics, more particularly in functional analysis, differential topology, and geometric measure theory, a ''k''-current in the sense of Georges de Rham is a functional on the space of compactly supported differential ''k''-forms, on a sm ...
, geometrical current in differential topology
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Conserved current
In physics a conserved current is a current, j^\mu, that satisfies the continuity equation \partial_\mu j^\mu=0. The continuity equation represents a conservation law, hence the name.
Indeed, integrating the continuity equation over a volume V, l ...
, a field associated to a symmetry in field theory
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Electric current
An electric current is a stream of charged particles, such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space. It is measured as the net rate of flow of electric charge through a surface or into a control volume. The moving pa ...
, a flow of electric charge through a medium
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Thermal current, a flow of heat through a medium
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IBM Current
IBM Current 1.1 was a Microsoft Windows 1.0-based graphical user interface relational database/personal information manager, introduced in 1990. It was revised as a software package called ''Commence'' by Jensen-Jones Inc., and included some of t ...
, an early personal information management program
* Google Currents
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Google Currents (news app), an app developed by Google that provided electronic access to full-length magazine articles between 2011 and 2013
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Google Currents (social app), an app developed by Google for internal enterprise communication between 2019 and 2023
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Probability current
In quantum mechanics, the probability current (sometimes called probability flux) is a mathematical quantity describing the flow of probability. Specifically, if one thinks of probability as a heterogeneous fluid, then the probability current is th ...
, in quantum mechanics
Arts and entertainment
Music
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Currents (band)
Currents is an American metalcore band from Fairfield, Connecticut, formed in 2011. After numerous line-up changes, they consist of singer Brian Wille, guitarists Ryan Castaldi and Chris Wiseman, bassist and backing vocalist Christian Pulgarin ...
, an American metal band
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''Current'' (album), a 1982 album by Heatwave
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''Currents'' (Eisley album)
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''Currents'' (Tame Impala album)
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"The Current" (song), by the Blue Man Group
* "Currents", a song by Dashboard Confessional from ''
Dusk and Summer
''Dusk and Summer'' is the fourth studio album by American rock band Dashboard Confessional.
Background
With the release of ''A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar'' (2003), Dashboard Confessional solidified its line-up of vocalist/guitarist Chris Ca ...
'', 2006
* "Currents", a song by Drake from ''
Honestly, Nevermind
''Honestly, Nevermind'' is the seventh studio album by Canadian rapper and singer Drake, which was surprise-released on June 17, 2022, through OVO Sound and Republic Records. The album includes a sole guest feature from 21 Savage, and product ...
'', 2022
* "The Currents", a song by Bastille from
Wild World, 2016
Film, television and radio
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''Current'' (1992 film), a Bollywood film
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''Current'' (2009 film), a Telugu film
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Current TV
Current TV was an American television channel which broadcast from August 1, 2005, to August 20, 2013. Prior INdTV founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, with Ronald Burkle, each held a sizable stake in Current TV. Comcast and DirecTV each held a smalle ...
, a defunct television channel in the US
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''Currents'' (TV series), an American Catholic news magazine television show
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''The Current'' (radio program), CBC Radio, Canada
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KCMP
KCMP (89.3 FM, 89.3 The Current) is a radio station owned by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) that broadcasts a AAA music format including a significant rotation of songs by local artists. Licensed to Northfield, Minnesota and covering the Minneapo ...
or 89.3 The Current, a Minnesota Public Radio station, US
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KDAM
KDAM (94.3 FM) is a hot adult contemporary radio station serving Yankton, South Dakota, Yankton and Vermillion, South Dakota area that is city of license, licensed to Hartington, Nebraska. KDAM is owned and operated by Riverfront Broadcasting LL ...
or Current 94.3, a radio station serving Yankton and Vermillion, South Dakota
Publications
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''Current'' (newspaper), an American trade journal
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''Currents'' (periodical), an international trade law journal
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Current Publishing
Current Publishing is a publishing company in Southern Maine that was founded by publisher Lee Hews in 2001.
In November 2015, after fourteen years of independent publishing, the company was sold to Sun Media, the local, family-owned publisher ...
, an American publishing company
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Current Publishing (UK)
Current Publishing is a British magazine publishing company based in Chiswick, London.
Summary
Current Publishing was founded in 1998. The company now publishes four titles: ''Current Archaeology'', ''Current World Archaeology'', ''Military His ...
, a British publishing company
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The Current (news organization)
The Current is a non-profit news organization in Lafayette, Louisiana. It describes itself as an "independent, digital newsroom pursuing answers to Lafayette's big questions."
History
The Current first appeared in April 2017 as a glossy print ...
, a non-profit online news organization in Lafayette, Louisiana
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''The Current'' (magazine), a student journal of Columbia University, US
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''The Current'' (newspaper), the student newspaper of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, US
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''The Current'' (NSU), the student newspaper of the Nova Southeastern University, US
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The Current Newspapers
''The Current Newspapers'' consisted of four print and online weekly community newspapers in Washington, D.C., with editions targeted to affluent communities in Georgetown, Dupont Circle, Foggy Bottom, and Northwest DC.
The publications group p ...
'', four print and online weekly community newspapers in Washington, DC, US
Other uses
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Current Lighting Solutions
Current Lighting Solutions, LLC (formerly Current, powered by GE and GE Current, a Daintree company), trading as Current, is a company that sells energy management systems. It is headquartered in Cleveland, U.S. The company CEO is Manish Bhandari, ...
, an electric subsidiary of American Industrial Partners formerly owned by General Electric
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Current (financial services company), a US financial services company also known as Finco Services, Inc.
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Kansas City Current
Kansas City Current is an American professional women's soccer team based in Kansas City, Kansas. It began play as an expansion team in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in 2021.
History Establishment
Kansas City last had an NWSL t ...
, American soccer team in the National Women's Soccer League
* The Current, branding for bus routes operated by
Southeast Vermont Transit
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USS ''Current'' (ARS-22), a ship
See also
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Current affairs (disambiguation) Current affairs may refer to:
News
* ''Current Affairs'' (magazine) a bimonthly magazine of culture and politics.
* Current affairs (news format): a genre of broadcast journalism
* Current Affairs, former name for Behind the News
Politics
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Current events
News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. New ...
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Conserved current
In physics a conserved current is a current, j^\mu, that satisfies the continuity equation \partial_\mu j^\mu=0. The continuity equation represents a conservation law, hence the name.
Indeed, integrating the continuity equation over a volume V, l ...
, a concept in physics and mathematics that satisfies the continuity equation
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Current density
In electromagnetism, current density is the amount of charge per unit time that flows through a unit area of a chosen cross section. The current density vector is defined as a vector whose magnitude is the electric current per cross-sectional ar ...
, a mathematical concept unifying electric current, fluid current, and others
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Current River (Ozarks)
The Current River forms in the southeastern portion of the Ozarks of Missouri and becomes a 7th order stream as it flows southeasterly out of the Ozarks into northeastern Arkansas where it becomes a tributary of the Black River, which is a tribu ...
, Missouri, US
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Currant (disambiguation)
Currant may refer to:
;Plants:
* ''Ribes'', genus of berry plants, e.g., blackcurrant, redcurrant and white currant
* Zante currant (US), dried black Corinth grapes; smaller than raisins (just "currant" in other English-speaking countries)
* Cur ...
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Kurrent
() is an old form of German-language handwriting based on late medieval cursive writing, also known as ("cursive script"), ("German script") and ''German cursive''. Over the history of its use into the first part of the 20th century, many ...
, German handwriting style
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