Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to bathymetry or the measurement of depths, especially at sea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from
bathymetry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to measurements of the depths of oceans or lakes
Etymologies
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Examples
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Somewhere in the bathymetric maps and the 100 years of records he reviewed, he saw that serious waves actually visited Long Beach on a regular basis.
Pro Surfing Gambles on Long Island Joshua Robinson 2011
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The cheerful shop windows would beckon with antiques and books and bathymetric maps of Lake Michigan and jewelry and fudge and pastel sweatshirts embroidered “Up North.”
The Hanging Tree Bryan Gruley 2010
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Geographic and bathymetric distributions for many commercially important fishes and shellfishes off the west coast of North America based on research survey and commercial catch data, 1912 – 1984.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea) 2009
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But starting today we have a much more detailed bathymetric map the ocean floor, so you can actually drop below the surface and explore the nooks and crannies of the seafloor in 3D.
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Yoj continued "Bath -- bathymetric" -- the words sounded utterly alien, and the children's faces were awed.
SKENE: CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Maggie Jochild 2007
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All the northern whales exhibit habitat selection, with sea-ice cover, depth, bathymetric structure, for example, of varying importance [36].
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The southern and southwestern sectors show the greatest bathymetric variation in the area, with emergent small islands (such as Dos Amigos, Rafael and Juan Bautista), and a great number of submerged rocks.
Isla del Coco Marine and Terrestrial Conservation Area, Costa Rica 2008
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To obtain more detailed bathymetric information multi-beam acoustic mapping surveys are conducted.
Seamount 2008
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This data is then integrated with 3D GIS (A 3D image-analysis zooarchaeological recording system pioneered by Yoshiko Abe and Curtis Marean) based model of the paleolandscape enriched with an integration of bathymetric (study of underwater depth) data and sea level curve allows a multi-faceted reconstruction of this life history-CWM
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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This data is then integrated with 3D GIS (A 3D image-analysis zooarchaeological recording system pioneered by Yoshiko Abe and Curtis Marean) based model of the paleolandscape enriched with an integration of bathymetric (study of underwater depth) data and sea level curve allows a multi-faceted reconstruction of this life history-CWM
Pinnacle Point (SA): Home to Fine Seafood Dining since 161993 BCE 2007
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