seabed

noun

sea·​bed ˈsē-ˌbed How to pronounce seabed (audio)
variants or less commonly sea bed
plural seabeds also sea beds
: the floor of a sea or ocean : seafloor
This atoll is the summit of an undersea volcano that rises from the seabed 10,000 feet below the surface.Kennedy Warne

Examples of seabed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web By March 5, 2022, as a winter worthy of Game of Thrones approached, 80 percent of the search box — covering 120 square miles of seabed — had been explored with no success. Sean Kingsley, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024 Its holdings include much of the UK’s seabed, and with it rights to grant permissions to build offshore wind farms, lay pipelines, and store carbon under the seabed. Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 17 July 2024 To some degree, long stretches of submarine cables on the continental shelf already enjoy physical protection: many are buried underneath three to ten feet of seabed out to a water depth of about 5,000 feet. Robert Martinage, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2015 When China restricted exports of rare-earth minerals to Japan over a territorial dispute in 2010, Japan diversified its sources of critical minerals and invested more in domestic seabed exploration. Victor Cha, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2022 See all Example Sentences for seabed 

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Word History

First Known Use

1838, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of seabed was in 1838

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“Seabed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seabed. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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seabed

noun
sea·​bed ˈsē-ˌbed How to pronounce seabed (audio)
: the floor of a sea or ocean

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