salinity
Americannoun
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the quality or condition of being salty; saltiness.
Ocean currents are driven by differences in the temperature and salinity of the water.
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a measurement of the amount of salt in a given solution.
Adding fresh water to a marsh lowers salinity.
Other Word Forms
- hypersalinity noun
- nonsalinity noun
- subsalinity noun
Etymology
Origin of salinity
Example Sentences
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They can’t recreate every wind puff and ocean eddy, so they divide the world into a 3-D grid and generate myriad variables for each box, from soil temperature to ocean salinity.
Factors that vary widely throughout the region—such as seafloor topography, temperature, salinity and the presence of fresh water from melting ice—can play havoc with sonar signals.
The report added there was "no documented procedure available for the storing of live lobster, in particular control measures in relation to the water treatment, water temperature, salinity, waste filtration".
From BBC
He started asking questions, and I set about explaining some of the words, like “estuary” and “salinity.”
From Literature
"There's clearly an attractant in the water," Pepin-Neff says, suggesting that a "perfect storm" of low salinity freshwater could have created a "biodiversity explosion".
From BBC
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