{
  "id": "current.present",
  "term": "current",
  "sense": "present",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 1,
  "domain": "systems",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Of the time that is now.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "Time runs on while a thing persists; picking out the one moment that is now separates what is the case from what was or will be.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a reference point that moves",
      "the place drift is measured from"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "current.fluid",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the present moment, not a flow of water or charge"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "ambiguity.state",
    "at-capacity.threshold",
    "brink.edge",
    "chaos.unpredictable-drift",
    "country-in-decline.downward",
    "founding-fathers.origin",
    "golden-age.past-peak",
    "good-enough.threshold",
    "greatest-generation.past-cohort",
    "hope.emotional",
    "hunger-for-change.appetite",
    "lessons-of-history.past-model",
    "margin.spatial",
    "no-room-for-error.threshold",
    "on-a-shoestring.margin",
    "possibility.potential",
    "pushing-the-envelope.frontier",
    "questions.linguistic",
    "right-side-of-history.destined",
    "rising-power.upward",
    "status.social",
    "strain.measurable-degradation",
    "we-built-this.maker-claim"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "current",
    "currently"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-28",
    "confidence": 0.9,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md",
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-current.present"
}