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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The salt water in or coming from the sea or ocean.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The saltwater of a sea or ocean.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. water containing salts

Examples

  • “At Mac's Seafood, right on the beach, across from fishing boats still unloading their afternoon catch, we ate a dozen oysters from a paper plate, the liquor on the clams which is what you call the seawater pooling on top running over our chins.”

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  • “The Diablo Canyon power plant uses only seawater from the Pacific ocean.”

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  • “Is there enough glacial freshwater melting to actually, significantly change the amount of salt in seawater, which would mean the oceans (where they were affected) would freeze at a higher temp, among other effects?”

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  • “Using a membrane, seawater is separated from a liquid with even higher saline concentrations; natural osmotic pressure pulls H2O from the seawater into a solution of ammonia salts, which can be evaporated at a relatively low temperature.”

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  • “The H2S-producing microbes eventually grew to such numbers that the toxic byproduct of their metabolism could no longer be contained in seawater solution.”

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  • “Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows evoke well the hardships of islanders who made do with wartime rations of one candle a week and cooked their vegetables in seawater for lack of salt.”

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  • “Decaying old ditches to retain seawater in shallow lagoons surrounded the roadbed.”

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  • “Hunterston used to use a cooling system which was basically sooking in seawater in big pipes, to cool the uranium.”

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  • “During the remaining six weeks, the buildings use conventional chillers, but the seawater is used to cool the condensers.”

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  • “The plant draws 42. 8-degree Fahrenheit (6-degree Celsius) seawater from a depth of 2,000 feet (610 meters).”

    Deep Lake Water Cooling System

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