Atlantic Ocean

Often the Atlantic

[at-lan-tik oh-shuhn]

noun

1. an ocean bounded by North America and South America in the Western Hemisphere and by Europe and Africa in the Eastern Hemisphere, with its deepest section in the Puerto Rico Trench: divided by the equator into the North Atlantic Ocean and the South Atlantic Ocean. 32,870,000 square miles (85,133,000 square kilometers).

Atlantic Ocean

noun

1. the world's second largest ocean, bounded in the north by the Arctic, in the south by the Antarctic, in the west by North and South America, and in the east by Europe and Africa. Greatest depth: 9220 m (30 246 ft). Area: about 81 585 000 sq km (31 500 000 sq miles)

Atlantic Ocean

1. Second-largest ocean in the world, separating North America and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Atlantic Ocean¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

Roughly 10 minutes into the flight Blue Origin landed the booster on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean, an operation it wasn’t able to complete during the rocket’s inaugural launch earlier this year.

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When Blue Origin first tested New Glenn, it was able to reach orbit but failed to land its booster on a floating barge in the Atlantic Ocean.

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On the other side of the world, beneath the Atlantic Ocean, the tectonic plates are moving apart, or diverging, which creates a more stable seismic environment.

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Everyone is wondering how the Americans plan to bring Cleo across the Atlantic Ocean.

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At the Pentagon, on a wall-sized map of the Atlantic Ocean, young men used long poles to plot the latest locations of American and Soviet ships.

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