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ocean
  1. (countable) One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
  2. (uncountable) Water belonging to an ocean.
  3. (figuratively) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The sun rose over the calm ocean with its usual splendor and fiery intensity.”
      “I saw that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love that flowed over the ocean of darkness.”
      “There's an ocean of money to be made out there.”
oceanography
  1. The exploration and scientific study of the oceans and ocean floor.
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    1. “At the end of the '60s, earth sciences was added to the marine biology and oceanography degrees offered at Scripps.”
      “In 1855, Maury wrote the first textbook on modern oceanography, The Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology.”
      “Each of those sections commences with an overview of the relevant oceans, oceanography, bathymetry, and meteorology.”
oceanophyte
  1. (biology) an oceanic plant or plant life which exists in oceans
oceanographer
  1. a person who studies oceanography, the science of oceans
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The renowned oceanographer conducted extensive research on marine ecosystems before publishing groundbreaking studies.”
      “I'm a physical oceanographer based at Southampton Oceanography Centre, where we also do climate research.”
      “I'm a professor in oceanography, a physical oceanographer working on problems of ocean ecology.”
oceanwater
  1. The water of the ocean.
oceanologist
  1. One who studies oceanology.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Petko Dimitrov, oceanologist at the IOBAS, sapropel-based fertilizers are sometimes better than artificial fertilizers.”
oceanographist
oceanview
  1. A view of the ocean.
oceanology
  1. oceanography
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In sixth-period biology, we watch an oceanology video that seems to have been made like two decades ago.”
      “The larger theories of geology, astronomy, oceanology, meteorology, ecology, biology, and even physics do not lend themselves to repeatable experiments.”
      “Mr Ainscow had retired after a career in the defence industry and the Ministry of Defence spending more than 20 years in oceanology.”
oceanographists
oceanographers
  1. plural of oceanographer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Only recently have oceanographers been able to map the seabed in something near the detail possible on land.”
      “Until recently, oceanographers gathered much of their data from solitary vessels that they navigated by means of stars and sextants.”
      “See the tools that oceanographers use, like this buoy used to measure ocean conditions.”
oceanologists
oceanophytes
  1. plural of oceanophyte
oceanviews
  1. plural of oceanview
oceans
  1. plural of ocean
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But even giant waves moving at the speed of jet airliners still take hours to cross great oceans.”
      “Most of the world's oxygen is produced by the planctum in the great oceans.”
      “Rows of teeth exposed between the great jaws that turned the oceans into a sea of blood.”
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