OCEAN CURRENT

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Meaning:

The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction

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Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("ocean current" is a kind of...):

current; stream (a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ocean current"):

El Nino ((oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time)

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

Gulf stream (a warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean)

Japan current; Kuroshio; Kuroshio current (a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean)

Humboldt current; Peruvian current (a cold ocean current that flows north along the Pacific Coast of South America before turning west)