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japan current
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun japan current has 1 sense
- japan current(n = noun.phenomenon) kuroshio, kuroshio current - a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean; Array is a kind of ocean current
CIDE DICTIONARY
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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