japan current

1. 1.

   a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean

   SynonymsKuroshio currentKuroshio

   Broaderocean current

Questions about japan current

What does japan current mean?

japan current means "a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean".

What is another word for japan current?

Close synonyms include Kuroshio current, Kuroshio. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is japan current a common word?

japan 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.