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Japan current
(gcide) | Japan current \Japan current\
A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing
the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward
past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North
Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in
allusion to the deep blue of its water. It is similar in may
ways to the Gulf Stream.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
japan current
(wn) | Japan current
n 1: a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the
coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean [syn: {Japan
current}, Kuroshio current, Kuroshio] |
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Japan current
(gcide) | Japan current \Japan current\
A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing
the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward
past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North
Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in
allusion to the deep blue of its water. It is similar in may
ways to the Gulf Stream.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
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