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Definition of Equatorial current
1. Noun. Any of the ocean currents that flow westward at the equator.
Specialized synonyms: North Equatorial Current, South Equatorial Current
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equatorial Current
Literary usage of Equatorial current
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The north equatorial current, from 9° to 20° N"., is strongest in March ; it is
not altogether supplied at its east end by the weak southward current along ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The equatorial current passes directly across the Atlantic towards the chain ...
its Telocity increases ; and so the portion of the equatorial current that ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1872)
"This flow intervenes between the well-defined equatorial current which is driven
on by the SE Trade, and the more expanded Westerly Drift impelled by the NE ..."
4. The American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation and by Nathaniel Bowditch, George Wood Logan (1906)
"Of the two, the Southern equatorial current is the more extensive. It has its
origin off the continent of Africa south of the Guinea coast, and begins its ..."
5. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855)
"... affords Evidence of a system of Oceanic Circulation, 274.— CURRENTS OF THE
ATLANTIC : The great equatorial current: its Fountain-head, 275. ..."
6. The Elements of Physical Geography: For the Use of Schools, Academies, and by Edwin James Houston (1894)
"The equatorial current crosses the ocean, from east to west, in two branches :
a south equatorial current, which comes from the Antarctic, ..."
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