Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Saline or salty character or quality; degree of saltiness; salineness.
Wiktionary
- n. The quality of being saline.
- n. chemistry The concentration of salt in a solution.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Salineness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
- n. the relative proportion of salt in a solution
Examples
“Blood is like seawater in salinity, perhaps like microscopic soup in makeup.”
“Soil salinity is rising on irrigated land which accounts for some 40 per cent of the world's food crops.”
“Further, some types are also adapted to salinity, which is often a problem in semiarid lands.”
“As a result, it stores and exports less freshwater and the salt concentration (also referred to as salinity) of the Arctic Ocean declines.”
“Physiological barriers to movement such as salinity tolerances or velocity barriers (i.e., currents) will possibly restrict range extensions where physical barriers to migration (e.g., waterfalls, non-connected drainage basins) do not exist.”
Climate change effects on arctic freshwater fish populations
“Parameters such as salinity, temperature and nutrient levels are measured.”
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“Watering patterns that encourage shallow rootedness can lead to other problems such as salinity (section 12.6.2) or roots growing primarily in upper soil layers where temperatures are high, both of which can inhibit growth and kill the plant in severe cases.”
“Mark nodded in his neoprofessional way, reaching for the terminal and requesting "salinity" from the machine.”
“Assuming that the organisms under consideration for coastal mariculture are indigenous, physical factors such as salinity and temperature should not be limiting at normal animal densities.”
“Some automated systems in the North Sea measured parameters such as salinity and temperature, but they were incapable of recording the all-revealing chemical and biological profile of water.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘salinity’.
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ENVI - general
abatement potential, adiabatic process, afforestation, albedo, alkene, anthropic activity, anthropogenic dis..., anthropogenic for..., anthropogenic, of..., olefin, atmospheric conve..., atmospheric tides and 229 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Yazhinni Spelling bee
tongue, stallion, scruple, salinity, schedule, rouge, populist, Permian, perspire, pasteurize, multitude, mournful and 227 more...
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"Brave New World"
From the book "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, which I purchased by accident.
brevity, florid, callow, sibilant, boskage, apopletic, asceptic, setentious, decant, predestine, viviparous, proliferate and 7 more...
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Salt
Words related to salt and saltiness.
adarce, brinish, brinishness, briny, saline, salinity, salsuginose, salsuginous, saltish, saltishly, saltishness, salty and 74 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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nfrank's Words
antediluvian, equivocate, inchoate, denouement, effulgent, edify, endemic, palimpsest, apropos, circumnavigate, circumlocution, cognoscente and 484 more...
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Brave New World
gametes, floridly, virtue, soliloquizing, squat, salinity, porous, bouillon, proliferate, burgeoned, prodigious, largesse and 20 more...
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words about water
words about forms of water, places of water, movements of water.
estuary, tributary, effluvial, alluvial, river, bay, pond, playa lake, tidal, bayou, cloud, cumulonimbus and 63 more...
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asativum What a salient citation. Jun 26, 2008
yarb I am told these men are the salt of the earth
     (I cannot testify to their salinity,
     all I can see is they scratch their genitals).
Some may be worse, none can be more disgusting.
     Guttural bucolics ham-philosophise,
     the gormless spout politics 'Them MPs
is thick as shit, thick as shit them MPs.'
- Peter Reading, New Start, from Fiction, 1979 Jun 26, 2008