pass current

pass current

1. obsolete Of a coin, to have a particular monetary worth. The coin passed current for 21 shillings until the end of the 17th century.
2. dated To be considered genuine or authentic. What passes current as orthodox religious belief these days would be considered quite liberal—downright blasphemous, even—200 years ago.
See also: current, pass
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

pass current

be generally accepted as true or genuine. British
Pass current originally referred to the currency of a genuine coin, as opposed to a counterfeit one.
See also: current, pass
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • shekel
  • shekels
  • a coin flip
  • a coin toss
  • toss a coin
  • flip a coin
  • heads or tails
  • Heads or tails?
  • on a/the toss of a/the coin
  • phrase
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(They were no longer able to fire and pass current.)
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Instead of a prop shaft running to the rear to power the rear wheels, the HM-01 has wires that pass current to a rear-mounted motor that looks after the rear drive.
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Rectification depends upon the ability of a material to readily pass current in only one direction.
Aluminium cannot easily be anodic cleaned because it will tend to anodise, and refuse to pass current, but of the more common metals this is the only on where anodic cleaning cannot be recommended.
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The traditional method fails, because under large-signal RF conditions, PHEMTs, FETs and HBTs pass currents at any given RF voltage that are different from the current the device passes if that same voltage is reached slowly, that is, at DC.