Definition of seawater
: water in or from the sea
- Trending Now: More Trending:
- embolization oleaginous pansexual symbiote charlatan
- ALL
What's Trending Now
More Trending Words
Recent Examples of seawater from the Web
-
For five months in 1973, workers doused the front of the flow with ice-cold seawater until it ground to a halt.
-
The energy released by the difference in temperature between a loop of seawater and a loop of fresh water is used to cool or to heat a whole neighbourhood.
-
When ice ages locked up seawater and shrunk oceans, plummeting sea levels stranded many shallow reefs, killing their inhabitants.
-
Birch Aquarium offers guided visits of spawning areas, and includes demonstrations of grunion hatchlings emerging from their eggs in a vial of seawater, Beckwith said.
-
The salt from rocks beneath the ice made the subglacial lakes four to five times saltier than seawater, or hypersaline.
-
That’s actually a complex calculation that has to account for the density of ice, snow, and seawater, as well as maps of bedrock topography beneath the ice.
-
Like other coral reefs around the world, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is facing big threats from climate change — such as warmer and more acidic seawater and increased ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun.
-
The team’s analysis shows this ancient ocean water carried roughly 20 percent as many sulfates as are found in modern seawater.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'seawater.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of seawater
before 12th century
SEAWATER Defined for English Language Learners
SEAWATER Defined for Kids
Definition of seawater for Students
: water in or from the sea
Learn More about seawater
-
See words that rhyme with seawater Spanish Central: Translation of seawater Nglish: Translation of seawater for Spanish speakers Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about seawater
Seen and Heard
What made you want to look up seawater? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
