Functioning and Current

noun

• Process or manner of functioning or operating.
  • usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
  • synonyms: operation, performance

verb

• Perform as expected when applied.
  • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • synonyms: function, work, operate, go, run
• Serve a purpose, role, or function.
  • usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
  • synonyms: serve, function
• Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
  • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
  • synonyms: officiate, function

adjective

• Performing or able to perform its regular function.
  • usage: "a functioning flashlight"

noun

• A flow of electricity through a conductor.
  • usage: "the current was measured in amperes"
  • synonyms: electric current
• A steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes. )
  • usage: "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water"
  • synonyms: stream
• Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas.
  • usage: "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
  • synonyms: stream, flow

adjective

• Occurring in or belonging to the present time.
  • usage: "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position"

• (a.) Running or moving rapidly.
• (a.) Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
• (a.) Passing from person to person or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
• (a.) A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; especially, the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.
• (a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
• (a.) Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
• (a.) General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.

(DoD) A body of water moving in a certain direction and caused by wind and density differences in water. The effects of a current are modified by water depth, underwater topography, basin shape, land masses, and deflection from the earth's rotation.