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geostrophic current (s) (noun), geostrophic currents (pl)
A wind, ocean current, or other such movement in which the horizontal force is exactly balanced by the apparent force exerted on a moving object by the rotation of the Earth: When studying oceanography, Jill learned that the Gulf Stream, the Kuroshio Current, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and the Agulhas Current were all examples of geostrophic currents.
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