abyssal depth
1abyssal depth — see abyssal for oceans; in fresh water it may mean the maximum depth or the depth at which water temperature remains uniform …
2abyssal depth — any of flat bottom strata of the sea …
3abyssal plain — Flat seafloor area at a depth of 10,000–20,000 ft (3,000–6,000 m), generally adjacent to a continent. The larger plains are hundreds of miles wide and thousands of miles long. The plains are largest and most common in the Atlantic Ocean, less… …
4abyssal zone — n. the ecological zone along the deep ocean floor between the bathyal and hadal zones * * * ▪ geology portion of the ocean deeper than about 2,000 m (6,600 feet) and shallower than about 6,000 m (20,000 feet). The zone is defined mainly by… …
5depth — noun 1 distance from top to bottom or from back to front; deep part of sth ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, great ▪ species that live at considerable depth ▪ They go down to great depths below the surface. ▪ maximum …
6depth — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Deepness Nouns 1. depth; deepness, profundity; deepening, lowering (see depression). See lowness. 2. depression, concavity;shaft, well; bowels of the earth, bottomless pit; hell; valley; abyss, chasm… …
7abyssal — adj. Abyssal is used with these nouns: ↑depth …
8abyssal — adj. [Gr. abyssos, the deep sea] Pertaining to the ocean depth beyond the continental shelf; dark area of the ocean below 2,000 meters …
9abyssal fish — noun those fish that live below a depth of 2000 meters …
10abyssal — /əˈbɪsəl/ (say uh bisuhl) adjective of unsearchable depth, as the lowest depths of the ocean; unfathomable …
