(n)an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather, Syn.NOAA
(n)a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago), Syn.Oceanica
a. [ Cf. F. océanique. See Ocean. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the ocean; found or formed in or about, or produced by, the ocean; frequenting the ocean, especially mid-ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]
Petrels are the most aerial and oceanic of birds. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Of or pertaining to Oceania or its inhabitants. [ 1913 Webster ]
[东太平洋隆起 / 東太平洋隆起, Dōng Tài píng yáng lóng qǐ, ㄉㄨㄥ ㄊㄞˋ ㄆㄧㄥˊ ㄧㄤˊ ㄌㄨㄥˊ ㄑㄧˇ]East Pacific rise (a mid-oceanic ridge stretching from California down to Antarctica)[Add to Longdo]
[转换断层 / 轉換斷層, zhuǎn huàn duàn céng, ㄓㄨㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄢˋ ㄉㄨㄢˋ ㄘㄥˊ]transform fault (geol., fault in oceanic crust between two branches of a mid-ocean ridge)[Add to Longdo]
[garapagosuzame](n) Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis, species of circumtropical requiem shark found in the reef environments around oceanic islands)[Add to Longdo]