(music) An old French dance from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era in triple metre. / (music) The second movement of a baroque suite (following the allemande, and before the sarabande)

plural of courante

A piece of music in triple time. / A lively dance; a coranto.

A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.

(heraldry) Represented as running.

plural of courant

Up to date; informed about the latest developments; abreast.

(mathematics) A principle that gives a condition for finding the eigenvalues for a real symmetric matrix.