NORTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does North Equatorial Current mean? 

• NORTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT (noun)
  The noun NORTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT has 1 sense:

1. an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just north of the equator

  Familiarity information: NORTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just north of the equator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("North Equatorial Current" is a kind of...):

equatorial current (any of the ocean currents that flow westward at the equator)