thermocline layer
1thermocline — thermoclinal, adj. /therr meuh kluyn /, n. a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below. Cf. epilimnion, hypolimnion. [1895 1900; THERMO +… …
2Layer — may refer to: * A layer of dieposits found on archaeological excavation isolated as a single context in the stratigraphy of the site * A layer hen, a hen raised to produce eggs. * In abstraction, a layer is an abstract place conceived as having… …
3thermocline — [thʉr′mə klīn΄] n. [ THERMO + cline, as in ANTICLINE] a layer of water between the warmer, surface zone and the colder, deep water zone in a thermally stratified body of water, in which the temperature decreases rapidly with depth …
4Thermocline — Aquatic layers Pelagic    Photic       Epipelagic …
5thermocline — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌklīn noun ( s) Etymology: therm + cline 1. : a temperature gradient; especially : one marking sharp change 2. : a layer of water in a thermally stratified lake or other body of water separating an upper warmer lighter oxygen rich zone… …
6thermocline — ther•mo•cline [[t]ˈθɜr məˌklaɪn[/t]] n. oce a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below • Etymology: 1895–1900; thermo + Gk klinē bed ther …
7thermocline — /ˈθɜmoʊklaɪn/ (say thermohkluyn) noun a layer in a large body of water that separates an upper layer which is warm and oxygen rich from a lower layer which is cold and oxygen poor. {thermo + cline (def. 2) …
8thermocline — the zone of rapidly changing temperature between the warm upper layer (epilimnion) and the lower cold layer (hypolimnion). Characterized by a temperature change of 1C° or more per metre …
9layer depth — The depth from the surface of the sea to the point above the first major negative thermocline at which sound velocity is maximum …
10thermocline — noun A layer within a body of water or air where the temperature changes rapidly with depth …
