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The branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans
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oceanography
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Oceanography (compound of the Greek words ὠκεανός meaning " ocean " and γράφω meaning "write"), also known as oceanology , is the branch of Earth science that studies the ocean. It covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oceanography \O`cean*og"ra*phy\, n. [Ocean + -graphy.] A description of the ocean.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I am working on my Masters degree in oceanography . ▪ I can remember when I first read about her back in the late 1960s in a book on oceanography . ▪ I used to want to study oceanography , but somehow I let my father talk me ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The exploration and scientific study of the oceans and ocean floor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1859, coined in English from ocean + -graphy ; on analogy of geography . French océanographie is attested from 1580s but is said to have been rare before 1876. Related: Oceanographic .
WordNet
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n. the branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans
Usage examples of oceanography.
Your records state that you are a leading authority on physical geography and biogeography, not to mention your experience in a wide array of areas--atmospheric sciences, chemistry, oceanography, physics, botany, and microbiology.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography just across town here but I think Ulva morina will be your best and only bet.
A top student, she graduated from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, where she had received her master's degree in biological Oceanography.
There is excitement and creativity in the computer industry, in educational technology, in the application of systems techniques to urban problems, in the new oceanography industry, in government agencies concerned with environmental health, and elsewhere.
They took turns, describing the advances in computers, the widespread use of the Internet and wireless communication, the space shuttle missions, the Hubble telescope, unmanned space probes, discoveries by NUMA in the field of oceanography, and advances in medicine.
An Australian pair of partners, Sandy Tate and Jeff Lee, oceanography and life science respectively, are pregnant -- or rather, Sandy herself is.
Latz of Scripps Institute of Oceanography, April at Micron Electronics, Esther Sung, the National Air and Space Museum, Dr.
Samshow, a long-legged, narrow-faced beanpole of a man, had spent more than two thirds of his seventy-one years at sea, serving ten years in the Navy from 1942 to 1952, and then moving on to forty years of research in physical oceanography.