continental slope
noun
: the comparatively steep slope from a continental shelf to the ocean floor
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement. 
From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022 This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022 This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022 This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022 This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022 This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022 This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement. Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2022 On the upper-continental slope, about 80 miles off the coast of Delacroix in the Gulf of Mexico, is a coral reef unlike those found in shallow, tropical waters. Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 7 Mar. 2018 See More
From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022 This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022 This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022 This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022 This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022 This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022 This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement. Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2022 On the upper-continental slope, about 80 miles off the coast of Delacroix in the Gulf of Mexico, is a coral reef unlike those found in shallow, tropical waters. Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 7 Mar. 2018 See More Word History
First Known Use
1900, in the meaning defined above