单词 | kuroshiwo |
释义 | Kuroshiwon. The Black Current or Gulf Stream of Japan. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun] > sea > specific Gulf Stream1775 Agulhas Currenta1830 North Atlantic Drifta1830 Labrador Current1835 Japan current1865 Alaska Current1868 Kuroshiwo1885 Japanese current1926 1885 Sir J. Murray in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 118/2 The Kuro-Siwo or Japan current—wholly a warm oceanic river during the S.E. monsoon similar to the Gulf Stream of the Atlantic. 1928 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas x. 231 In the Pacific..there is a system of oceanic currents much after the manner of that in the Atlantic, the Japan Current or ‘Kuro Shiwo’ corresponding to our Gulf Stream. 1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 57 Often compared with the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio, the East Australian Current is essentially different because it does not, as do the other two, make up an eddy system extending towards the east across the ocean. 1969 Sci. Jrnl. Jan. 16/1 The Kuroshio..is a swift current that runs along the western edge of the Pacific just as the Gulf Stream does in the North Atlantic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1885 |
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