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Anti-trade  n.  A westerly wind which blows nearly continuously between 30° and 50° of latitude in both the northern and the southern hemisphere.






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"Anti-trade" Quotes from Famous Books



... point," replied the captain. "One authority says that the Gulf Stream 'is caused by the motion of the sun in the ecliptic,' and I think there is a good deal of reason in this. Another philosopher puts it down to the influence of the anti-trade and passage winds blowing from the west to the east along the zone in which the stream travels; and I think much might be said about that argument, especially as the westerly current south of the tropic ...
— The White Squall - A Story of the Sargasso Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson



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