air current vs airstream

airstream vs air current

air current and airstream both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
air current	Yes	No	No	No
airstream	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, airstream is a hyponym of air current; that is, airstream is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than air current:

air current: air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
airstream: a relatively well-defined prevailing wind

Other hyponyms of air current include calm, calm air, air, breeze, gentle wind, zephyr, chinook, chinook wind, snow eater, harmattan, crosswind, foehn, fohn, khamsin, Santa Ana, high wind, headwind, catabatic wind, katabatic wind, tailwind, doldrums, languor, east wind, easter, easterly, northwest wind, northwester, sou'wester, southwester, sou'easter, southeaster, gale, blast, blow, gust, monsoon, monsoon, boreas, north wind, norther, northerly, prevailing wind, samiel, simoom, simoon, south wind, souther, southerly, squall, thermal, draft, draught, west wind, wester.

air current (noun)	airstream (noun)
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure	a relatively well-defined prevailing wind
	the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

Difference between air current and airstream

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