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Oceanica

Definition: Oceanica

Oceanica

Noun

1. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Oceanica" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references)

"Oceanica" is a common misspelling or typo for: oceanic.


Synonym: Oceanica

Synonym: Oceania (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Oceanica

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References

  • Oceanica GmbH & Cie. KGaA: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • Fondamenti dinamici della circolazione oceanica alle medie latitudini (reference)

  • International Workshop on Posidonia Oceanica Beds : the First International Workshop on Posidonia Oceanica Beds, Porquerolles, France, 12-15 October 1983 (reference)

  • Naufragio nel Pacifico : storia dell'ultima campagna oceanica della nave a palo "Italia" (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Oceanica

Illustrations:
Oceanica

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Computer Images:
Oceanica

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Photo Album: Oceanica

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Freighter Oceanica.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Oceanica

CountryName
Germany

Oceanica GmbH & Cie. KGaA

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Oceanica

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  oceanica

5

  oceanica via

2

  oceanica posidonia

2
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Modern Translations: Oceanica

Language Translations for "Oceanica"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

Oceanië (Oceania). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

Oceanio (Oceania). (various references)

   

French

  

Océanie (Oceania). (various references)

   

German

  

Ozeanien (Oceania). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oceanicaay

   

Spanish

  

Oceanía (Oceania). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Oceanica

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-n-o"

-1 letter: cocaine, oceanic.

-2 letters: aeonic, cocain.

-3 letters: aecia, cacao, caeca, canoe, conic, ocean.

-4 letters: acne, aeon, anoa, caca, cain, cane, ceca, ciao, cine, cion, coca, coin, cone, coni, icon, naoi, nice, once.

-5 letters: ace, ain, ana, ane, ani, can, con, eon, ice, ion, nae, oca, one.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-n-o"
 

+2 letters: covariance.

 

+3 letters: acceptation, accessional, accompanied, accompanies, anacreontic, anecdotical, cancelation, cocaptained, covariances, nonacademic.

 

+4 letters: acceleration, accentuation, acceptations, accretionary, anacreontics, archdiocesan, cancelations, cancellation, chatoyancies, clairvoyance, coacervation, complaisance, decalcomania, melancholiac, microbalance, neoclassical, nonacademics, transoceanic.

 

+5 letters: accelerations, accentuations, accompaniment, accountancies, accreditation, acetification, aeromechanics, anecdotically, biomechanical, cancellations, capaciousness, catechization, catecholamine, clairvoyances, coacervations, coeducational, complaisances, concatenating, concatenation, confiscatable, coparcenaries, cyanobacteria, decalcomanias, encyclopaedia, incarceration, melancholiacs, microbalances, nonmechanical, oceanographic, plantocracies, recalculation, revaccination, unaccompanied.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Oceanica


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 63 65 61 6E 69 63 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "Oceanica"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "Oceanica"

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