equatorial current

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   any of the ocean currents that flow westward at the equator

   Broaderocean current

   NarrowerNorth Equatorial CurrentSouth Equatorial Current

Questions about equatorial current

What does equatorial current mean?

equatorial current means "any of the ocean currents that flow westward at the equator".

Is equatorial current a common word?

equatorial current is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.