Current Explained

Currents, Current or The Current may refer to:

Science and technology

• Current (fluid), the flow of a liquid or a gas
  • Air current, a flow of air
  • Ocean current, a current in the ocean
    • Rip current, a kind of water current
  • Current (stream), currents in rivers and streams
  • Convection current, flow caused by unstable density variation due to temperature differences
• Current (mathematics), geometrical current in differential topology
• Conserved current, a field associated to a symmetry in field theory
• Electric current, a flow of electric charge through a medium
• Thermal current, a flow of heat through a medium
• IBM Current, an early personal information management program
• Google Currents
  • Google Currents (news app), an app developed by Google that provided electronic access to full-length magazine articles between 2011 and 2013
  • Google Currents (social app), an app developed by Google for internal enterprise communication between 2019 and 2023
• Probability current, in quantum mechanics

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Currents (band), an American metal band
• Current (album), a 1982 album by Heatwave
• Currents (Eisley album)
• Currents (album), a 2015 album by Tame Impala
• "The Current" (song), by the Blue Man Group
• "Currents", a song by Dashboard Confessional from Dusk and Summer, 2006
• "Currents", a song by Drake from Honestly, Nevermind, 2022
• "The Currents", a song by Bastille from Wild World, 2016

Film, television and radio

• Current (1992 film), a Bollywood film
• Current (2009 film), a Telugu film
• Current TV, a defunct television channel in the US
• Currents (TV series), an American Catholic news magazine television show
• The Current (radio program), CBC Radio, Canada
• KCMP or 89.3 The Current, a Minnesota Public Radio station, US
• KDAM or Current 94.3, a radio station serving Yankton and Vermillion, South Dakota

Publications

• Current (newspaper), an American trade journal
• Currents (periodical), an international trade law journal
• Current Publishing, an American publishing company
• Current Publishing (UK), a British publishing company
• The Current (news organization), a non-profit online news organization in Lafayette, Louisiana
• The Current (magazine), a student journal of Columbia University, US
• The Current (newspaper), the student newspaper of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, US
• The Current (NSU), the student newspaper of the Nova Southeastern University, US
• The Current Newspapers, four print and online weekly community newspapers in Washington, DC, US

Other uses

• Current Lighting Solutions, an electric subsidiary of American Industrial Partners formerly owned by General Electric
• Current (financial services company), a US financial services company also known as Finco Services, Inc.
• Kansas City Current, American soccer team in the National Women's Soccer League
• The Current, branding for bus routes operated by Southeast Vermont Transit
• USS Current (ARS-22), a ship

See also

• Current affairs (disambiguation)
• Current events
• Conserved current, a concept in physics and mathematics that satisfies the continuity equation
• Current density, a mathematical concept unifying electric current, fluid current, and others
• Current River (Ozarks), Missouri, US
• Currant (disambiguation)
• Kurrent, German handwriting style