Pacific Ocean

Often the Pacific

[puh-sif-ik oh-shuhn]

noun

1. the largest of the world’s five principal oceans, bordered by the American continents, Asia, and Australia, with its deepest section in the Mariana Trench: divided by the equator into the North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. 62,455,900 square miles (161,760,000 square kilometers).

Pacific Ocean

noun

1. the world's largest and deepest ocean, lying between Asia and Australia and North and South America: almost landlocked in the north, linked with the Arctic Ocean only by the Bering Strait, and extending to Antarctica in the south; has exceptionally deep trenches, and a large number of volcanic and coral islands. Area: about 165 760 000 sq km (64 000 000 sq miles). Average depth: 4215 m (14 050 ft). Greatest depth: Challenger Deep (in the Marianas Trench), 11 033 m (37 073 ft). Greatest width: (between Panama and Mindanao, Philippines) 17 066 km (10 600 miles)

Pacific Ocean

1. The largest ocean in the world, separating Asia and Australia on the west from North America and South America on the east.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pacific Ocean¹

First recorded in 1560–70

Example Sentences

One such potential influence to our winter weather is a 'warm blob' in the Pacific Ocean which could favour higher pressure and colder conditions developing in Europe.

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Large low-shear-velocity provinces are enormous masses of extremely hot, dense rock, with one positioned beneath Africa and the other under the Pacific Ocean.

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Rick Devinney, with Drake Traffic Control Services, a contractor working on the site, told The Times that the transpacific fiber optic cable runs under the Pacific Ocean from California to Asia.

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The primary road through the region, world-famous Highway 1, which clings to cliffs high above the Pacific Ocean in postcard-worthy fashion, is almost constantly closed by landslides, isolating communities and stranding weary travelers.

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Along the Big Sur coast, a 5-year-old girl was swept into the Pacific Ocean by waves estimated to be 15 to 20 feet high just before 1 p.m.

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