north equatorial current

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

   Broaderequatorial current

Questions about north equatorial current

What does north equatorial current mean?

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

Is north equatorial current a common word?

north 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.