Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- As regards oceanography or the physical geography of the ocean.
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- adverb In terms of
oceanography .
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Examples
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This area encompasses 3.5 million km2 of cold, low-salinity surface water and seasonal sea ice that are linked oceanographically to the Arctic Ocean and areas of the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans that interact with them.
Marine Arctic 2009
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The LME is oceanographically well defined and is limited by the Palawan trough to the North and by the Sulawesi Island to the South.
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A complex system of transverse rides is oceanographically important because it separates the relatively warm and saline waters of the Atlantic from the cold, fresh Arctic waters of the Iceland Sea and Norwegian Sea to the North and Northeast.
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