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Definition: Pacific Ocean |
Pacific OceanNoun1. The largest ocean in the world. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Pacific Ocean (The). So called by Magellan, because he enjoyed calm weather and a placid sea when he sailed across it. All the more striking after the stormy and tempestuous passage of the adjoining straits. The Pacific. Amadeus VIII., Count of Savoy. (1383, 1391-1439; died 1451.) Frederick III., Emperor of Germany. (1415, 1440-1493.) Olaus III. of Norway. (*, 1030-1093.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Melanesia means black islands. These include the largest Pacific island, New Guinea, which is divided into the nation of Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands.
Micronesia means small islands. These include the Marianas, Guam, Palau, the Marshall Islands, the Gilbert Islands, Nauru, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
Polynesia means many islands. These include New Zealand, Kiribati, the Hawaiian Islands, the Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, the Cook Islands, French Polynesia, and Easter Island.
There are also many other islands located within the boundaries of the Pacific Ocean, but these are not considered part of Oceania. These islands include the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador; the Aleutian Islands in Alaska; the Russian islands of Sakhalin and Kuril Islands; the island nation of Japan, which includes the Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan; the Philippines; the South China Sea Islands; and most of the islands of Indonesia.
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Synonym: Pacific OceanSynonym: pacific (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | And so, Theodore Donald Karabozoz, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) So why don't you get back into that sardine can of yours and go, go vaccuum the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. I've got business to take care of. You're blocking my customers with your car. (The Bad News Bears; writing credit: Bill Lancaster) America should be free ground, from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow, no man born to royalty. (Gettysburg; writing credit: Ronald F. Maxwell) | |
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 | Each of these swirling clouds is a result of a meteorological phenomenon known as a Karman vortex. These vortices appeared over Alexander Selkirk Island in the southern Pacific Ocean. Rising precipitously from the surrounding waters, the island's highest point is nearly a mile (1.6 km) above sea level. As wind-driven clouds encounter this obstacle, they flow around it to form these large, spinning eddies.Credit: NASA. |  | Magnetic anomaly map produced on SURVEYOR Magnetic striping is readily apparent in this map of offshore California Earlier magnetic work led directly to Theory of Seafloor Spreading This map helped unravel the tectonic history of the Eastern Pacific Ocean Data acquired by towed proton precession magnetometer.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | View of the coast and Pacific Ocean from Yaquina Head Lighthouse.Credit: John Craig. | ||
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Economic History | Colombia | Terrain: Flat coastal areas, with extensive coastlines on the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea three rugged parallel mountain chains, central highlands, and flat eastern grasslands. (references) |
Mexico | The port of Guaymas, on the Pacific Ocean, is well known for the production of shrimp. (references) | |
Mexico | The Pacific Ocean surrounds Baja California Sur on the left and the Gulf of California on the right. (references) | |
Political Economy | Kiribati | Kiribati is a constitutional republic that occupies 33 small islands widely scattered across 1.365 million square miles of the central Pacific Ocean. (references) |
Tuvalu | The country has a population of approximately 10,000 persons on 9 atolls in the central South Pacific Ocean. (references) | |
Trade | Argentina | The city is geographically located in the heart of Atlantic Patagonia, 553 km from the Pacific Ocean. (references) |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Lewis and Clarke for exploring the river Missouri and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocean has had all the success which could have been expected. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The usual force has been maintained in the Mediterranean Sea, the Pacific Ocean, and along the Atlantic coast, and has afforded the necessary protection to our commerce in those seas. |
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Expression using "Pacific Ocean": the pacific ocean. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pacific ocean | 1,921 |
pacific ocean map | 95 |
pacific ocean picture | 36 |
pacific ocean fish | 10 |
pacific ocean island | 8 |
pacific ocean photo | 6 |
pacific ocean current | 6 |
south pacific ocean | 3 |
pacific ocean tide chart | 2 |
pacific ocean fishing | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Pacific Ocean"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | oqeani paqësor (pac., Pacific), oqeani i qetë. (various references) | |
Arabic | المحيط الهادي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тихият океан. (various references) | |
Chinese | 太平洋 (the Pacific Ocean). (various references) | |
Czech | pacifik (Pacific), tichý oceán. (various references) | |
Danish | Stillehavs-rødfisk (Pacific ocean perch). (various references) | |
Dutch | Stille Zuidzee (Pacific), Stille Oceaan (Pacific), Grote Oceaan (Pacific). (various references) | |
Esperanto | Pacifiko (Pacific). (various references) | |
Faeroese | Kyrra Havið (Pacific). (various references) | |
Finnish | Tyyni Valtameri (Pacific). (various references) | |
French | Pacifique (Pacific), océan pacifique (Pacific). (various references) | |
German | Pazifischer Rotbarsch (Pacific ocean perch). (various references) | |
Greek | κοκκινόψαρο (Pacific ocean perch). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אוקי וס "שקט. (various references) | |
Hungarian | csendes-óceán (pacific). (various references) | |
Icelandic | Kyrrahaf (Pacific). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lautan teduh (the pacific ocean). (various references) | |
Irish | Aigéan Ciúin (Pacific). (various references) | |
Italian | pacifico oceano. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 太平洋 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいへいよう. (various references) | |
Manx | Yn Keayn Sheealtagh (The Pacific Ocean). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acificpay oceanay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tranquilo (calm, cool-headed, deep-seated, easel, even-minded, half-light, order paper, passions, peaceable, peaceful, peacemaker, piping hot, placidity, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, rested, restful, sedate, self possessed, self-collected, settled, smooth, sober-blooded, still, stilly, tranquil, unconcerned, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirred), OceanoPacífico (Pacific). (various references) | |
Russian | тихий океан. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pacifički okean. (various references) | |
Spanish | Pacífico (calm, non-violent, pacific, peaceable, peaceful), Océano Pacífico (Pacific). (various references) | |
Swedish | stilla havet, Söderhavet (Pacific, the south pacific). (various references) | |
Turkish | büyük okyanus (Pacific, south sea, the pacific, the pacific ocean). (various references) | |
Welsh | Y Mo+r Tawel, Môr Tawel (Pacific). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Sebastes alutus, Sebastodes alutus. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-c-e-f-i-i-n-o-p" | |
-4 letters: focaccia. | |
-5 letters: apnoeic, cocaine, epinaoi, oceanic, pacific. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 63 69 66 69 63 4F 63 65 61 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01100011 01101001 01100110 01101001 01100011 00100000 01001111 01100011 01100101 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a c i f i c   O c e a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0063 0069 0066 0069 0063 004F 0063 0065 0061 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5067697572756924969716780 |
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