air current vs prevailing wind

prevailing wind vs air current

air current and prevailing wind both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
air current	Yes	No	No	No
prevailing wind	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, prevailing wind is a hyponym of air current; that is, prevailing wind 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
prevailing wind: the predominant wind direction

Other hyponyms of air current include airstream, 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, samiel, simoom, simoon, south wind, souther, southerly, squall, thermal, draft, draught, west wind, wester.

air current (noun)	prevailing wind (noun)
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure	the predominant wind direction

Difference between air current and prevailing wind

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