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- noun Plural form of
archipelago .
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Examples
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The Greeks originally used the word archipelagos for the Aegean Sea, which washes against the shores of Greece and was their "chief sea."
unknown title 2009
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The use of aga light facilitates the placing of lighthouses and lightbuoys in the most inaccessible places such as archipelagos and seas with dangerous reefs.
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Organizations that have a central repository of information - off local hard drives and individual's email inboxes - don't have knowledge archipelagos, meaning that you don't have to run down somebody to get access to their information.
GigaOM Network 2009
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Organizations that have a central repository of information - off local hard drives and individual's email inboxes - don't have knowledge archipelagos, meaning that you don't have to run down somebody to get access to their information.
GigaOM Network 2009
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Now it was possible to see the real shape of the house with its odd inlets and archipelagos, possible to get a sense of the interior space.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The non-stick coating had peeled off so they looked like maps of an alien world's continents and archipelagos done in contrasting shades of gray.
Pieces Michael Hartford 2011
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These materials are augmented by special powers accessed by massing followers around totem poles, while you can build up a revealing encyclopaedia of your surroundings by unlocking tribal memories, triggered by spreading palm trees across its arid and rocky archipelagos.
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The non-stick coating had peeled off so they looked like maps of an alien world's continents and archipelagos done in contrasting shades of gray.
Pieces Michael Hartford 2011
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Indonesia, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, as well as China and Vietnam, have competing claims over the sea area that is marked by several island archipelagos.
Vietnam Mounts Artillery Drill Amid Tensions With China 2011
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Indonesia, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, as well as China and Vietnam, have competing claims over the sea area that is marked by several island archipelagos.
Vietnam Mounts Artillery Drill Amid Tensions With China 2011
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