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ocean
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈoʊ·ʃən/
the large mass of salt water that covers most of the earth’s surface:
[ U ]These mysterious creatures live at the bottom of the ocean.
Ocean is also used in the name of the world’s five main divisions of this mass of water:
[ C ]the Atlantic/Pacific/Indian/Arctic/Antarctic Ocean

oceanic

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ˌoʊ·ʃiˈæn·ɪk/
oceanic conditions

Examples of ocean

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Such flows occur commonly in nature, examples being katabatic winds and turbidity currents in the oceans.
The developers believe that all kinds of robotic creatures will explore the oceans and send back information.
Here are figures relating to oceans and mountains but nothing on lakes and rivers.
Perhaps one group is right and the other wrong, but neither is postulating a policy as ridiculous as oceans full of lemonade.
He identifies the bathyal region of the oceans as the main recruiting zone for repopulation of the devastated shelf environments.
Illness that makes you have passionate thoughts about the oceans.
One might suppose that those species (whales, birds) that are accustomed to roaming widely around the oceans could readily migrate in response to global warming.
The maps are richly annotated and identify plates, margins, oceans, sediment type, together with comments specific to the time interval in question.
The article in question deals primarily with wild living resources in the oceans, so this critique confines itself to the marine realm.
The epinephelines are a major group of commercially significant fishes concentrated in the warmer oceans of the world.
He considered additionally what would happen in the case of oceans that are bounded by coastlines.
The discussion of the role of sea ice in shaping the polar oceans in the first chapter is very brief.
The tuna, known for its high vagility, is capable of undertaking migrations across oceans.
Model scales range from whole oceans to single stretches of shoreline, to groups of a few current ripples.
Effects would be much less severe near coasts or on islands with water vapor brought in by oceans.
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Collocations withocean

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These are words often used in combination with ocean.

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deep ocean
Some numbers characteristic of flow in the deepocean are presented.
magma ocean
The first issue is the very existence of a terrestrial magmaocean.
ocean acidification
Apart from predators, corals in general are at risk from rising sea temperatures, violent storms, oceanacidification, bleaching and coral diseases.
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