单词 | marine science |
释义 | marine sciencen. Originally: the science of marine and naval matters. Later: the interdisciplinary study of the sea and the life, minerals, etc., it contains; each of the individual disciplines involved in this. ΚΠ 1852 Harper's Mag. May 757/2 He had a fleet and all the resources of the latest military and marine science. 1860 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 410 Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations, foundered off the Northeast coast. 1928 C. M. Yonge (title) Queer fish: essays on marine science and other aspects of biology. 1945 Inst. Marine Sci. Publ. (Univ. Texas) No. 1. 5 In conjunction with the establishment of the Institute of Marine Science..it was planned to provide for appropriate publication of results of investigations on..oceanography of the Gulf of Mexico. 1969 Nature 1 Mar. 804/2 A brief explanation is required of the word ‘oceanology’... In the early days it was often used synonymously with ‘oceanography’ to mean ‘marine science’. 1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans p. xxiv Students were attracted to the marine sciences in record numbers. 1995 Stornoway Gaz. 13 July 7/7 There are five degrees being developed in Environment, Rural Development, Business Administration, Marine Sciences and Tourism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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