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Definition of Oceanic abyss
1. Noun. A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor.
Specialized synonyms: Atacama Trench, Bougainville Trench, Japan Trench, Nares Deep
Generic synonyms: Depression, Natural Depression
Definition of Oceanic abyss
1. Noun. A long, deep depression or trench in the ocean floor ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oceanic Abyss
Literary usage of Oceanic abyss
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theological and Literary Journal (1855)
"... by an easy and natural image to be chained fast in the poetical and central
prison of the great oceanic abyss," is another instance of the inconsiderate ..."
2. The Earth and Its Story: A First Book of Geology by Angelo Heilprin (1899)
"The large number of volcanic disturbances which take place in various parts of
the oceanic abyss, around and in the numerous islands that rise out of it and ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"But there is a vast difference between this platform and the sub-oceanic continental
slope which leads down to the great oceanic abyss ; the phenomena ..."
4. Island Life: Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace (1881)
"... had our deepest oceans been the seat of great continents, while the site of
our present continents was occupied by an oceanic abyss—is it possible to ..."
5. The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde) by Eduard Suess (1906)
"... subsidence of the strand-line, as a consequence of the sudden formation of a
great oceanic abyss, has not taken place for some thousands of years past. ..."
6. Michael Heilprin and His Sons: A Biography by Gustav Pollak (1912)
"But the conditions become very different when the oceanic abyss, such as the
central Pacific, is substituted for a comparatively shallow coast-line. ..."
7. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"... the Coast and Geodetic Survey maps the navigable tidal waters of the United
States as far outwards as the oceanic abyss ; and the Hydrographie Office of ..."
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