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Currencycloud
Currencycloud is a London-based fintech company founded in 2012 that provides cloud-based, API-driven cross-border payments and foreign-exchange infrastructure for banks and fintech platforms, acquired by Visa in 2021.
Current account (balance of payments)
The current account is the balance of payments component recording trade in goods and services, investment income, and transfers; a positive balance is a surplus.
Current Criminal Code (Xianxing xinglü)
The Current Criminal Code (现行刑律) was a Qing dynasty criminal code compiled by Shen Jiaben and Yu Liansan, promulgated in 1910 and in force about one year.
Current rate method
The current rate method is a foreign-currency translation method that translates all assets and liabilities at the balance-sheet-date rate, with translation differences reported in other comprehensive income.
Current ratio
The current ratio is a liquidity measure defined as current assets divided by current liabilities, used by creditors and in bank covenants, though a single-date snapshot with known limitations.
Curriculum
Curriculum: the organized plan for an education or training action, defining objectives, content, methods, assessment and teacher training; also called intended, implemented and attained curriculum in OECD analysis.
Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021
Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021, Deddf Cwricwlwm ac Asesu (Cymru) 2021, asc 4: Senedd Cymru law establishing the Curriculum for Wales, replacing the Education Act 2002 basic curriculum, with four purposes, statutory codes, 3-16 continuum, and phased rollout to 2026.
Curriculum for Excellence
Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), also called Scotland's Curriculum, is Scotland's national 3–18 curriculum built on four capacities, five curriculum levels, a Broad General Education to S3, and a Senior Phase, now undergoing reform via the Curriculum Improvement Cycle.
Curriculum for Wales (2022–present)
Curriculum for Wales is the national 3-16 curriculum for Wales, statutory under the 2021 Act, built on four purposes, six Areas of Learning and Experience, school-level design autonomy, and phased rollout from September 2022 to full coverage by 2026.
Curriculum mapping
Curriculum mapping is a pedagogical method that documents what is taught, when, and how, usually as a matrix linking courses to learning outcomes and assessments.
Curriculum vitae
Curriculum vitae (CV), Latin for "course of one's life": a document summarizing education and professional history. US academic record versus European résumé equivalent; Europass format; structure, history, and evaluation bias.
Currier and Ives
Currier and Ives, New York lithographic firm (1835–1907) founded by Nathaniel Currier with partner James Merritt Ives from 1857; publisher of cheap, hand-colored popular prints, Civil War imagery, political cartoons for both parties, and the racist Darktown series.
Currys
Currys is a British technology and electricals retailer founded in 1884, listed in London, trading in the UK and Ireland and as Elkjøp in the Nordics, with 691 stores.
Currys plc
Currys plc, formerly Dixons Carphone, is a British electricals and technology retailer operating 691 stores across 6 countries, formed by the 2014 merger of Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse.
Curse
A curse is a spoken wish, often ritual or formal, for harm or bad luck to befall a person, place, or thing, known across nearly all cultures.
Curse and mark of Cain
The curse and mark of Cain, in Genesis 4, are distinct: the curse sentences Cain to barren ground and wandering, while the mark protects him from being killed.
Curse of Agade
The Curse of Agade, also called The Cursing of Agade, is a Sumerian poem about King Naram-Suen of Akkad and the gods' destruction of his capital, Agade.
Curse of Ham (חָם)
The Curse of Ham (Hebrew: חָם), also called the Curse of Canaan, is an interpretation of Genesis 9 in which Noah curses Canaan to servitude.
Curse of knowledge
Curse of knowledge: cognitive bias, coined by Camerer, Loewenstein, and Weber (1989), in which knowing something makes it hard to imagine not knowing it, biasing estimates of what others know; replication record mixed.
Curse of the pharaohs
Curse of the pharaohs, also called the mummy's curse or curse of Tutankhamun: a modern legend from 1920s press coverage of the 1922 tomb discovery, not an ancient inscription; epidemiology shows no excess deaths among those exposed.
Curse of Tippecanoe
Curse of Tippecanoe, also called Tecumseh's Curse or the Zero-Year Curse: American folklore claiming zero-year presidents die in office. Pattern held 1840-1960 (seven deaths), broke with Reagan in 1981; no contemporary source records the 1811 curse.
Cursed soldiers
Cursed soldiers (żołnierze wyklęci, indomitable soldiers): Polish post-1944 anti-communist underground fighters, mostly ex-Home Army, waging guerrilla war until 1963; commemorated on 1 March since 2011.
Cursive
Cursive (joined-up writing, longhand, script): handwriting with letters joined in flowing strokes so words are written without lifting the pen. Covers Secretary Hand, Spencerian, Palmer, D'Nealian, US state mandates since Common Core, and research finding no consistent speed advantage over print.
Cursive script
Cursive script (草书, caoshu) is a fast, abbreviated style of writing Chinese characters with joined strokes, developed from clerical script in the Han dynasty and now practiced as calligraphy.
Cursus honorum
Cursus honorum, the Roman 'career path' attested first in Cicero: the legally ordered ladder of magistracies from quaestor through praetor to consul, codified by the lex Villia annalis of 180 BC, tightened by Sulla, and restructured under Augustus.
Curt Jones (entrepreneur)
Curt Jones is an American entrepreneur and former microbiologist who invented flash-frozen beaded ice cream, founding Dippin' Dots in 1988 and building it into a theme-park fixture.
Curt Menefee
Curt Menefee (born 1965) is an American sportscaster, host of FOX NFL Sunday since 2007 and co-host of Good Day New York; also lead USFL/UFL play-by-play voice and author of Losing Isn't Everything.
Curt Renshaw
Curt Anthony Renshaw is a United States Navy vice admiral, surface warfare officer, and Commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, 5th Fleet, and Combined Maritime Forces since October 2025; previously commanded USS Independence, USS Robert Smalls, and Carrier Strike Group Eight.
Curt Richter
Curt Richter (1894–1988) was an American psychobiologist at Johns Hopkins University who showed that behavior serves bodily regulation and demonstrated the endogenous 24-hour biological clock.
Curt Weldon
Curt Weldon (Wayne Curtis Weldon, born 1947) is a Republican who represented Pennsylvania's 7th district in the US House, 1987–2007; vice chair of House Armed Services, founder of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus, sponsor of the National Missile Defense Act of 1999, and proponent of the disputed Able Danger claims; lost to Joe Sestak in 2006.