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单词 pycnocline
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Definition of pycnocline in English:

pycnocline

nounˈpɪknə(ʊ)klʌɪnˈpiknəˌklīn
Geography
  • A layer in an ocean or other body of water in which water density increases rapidly with depth.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Saline and warm Mediterranean water flowing through the Bosporus Strait maintains a permanent pycnocline.
    • Specifically, more oceanographic research in Hudson Bay, particularly documenting pycnocline development, is needed.
    • The polar regions are the only places where deep waters are ever exposed to the atmosphere because the pycnocline is not always present.
    • Bezys and Risk suggested that the black shales and mudstone facies were the results of a stratified water column with a pycnocline.
    • Deployments of the HRS and measurements of microscale turbulence were made simultaneously in the mixed surface layer, the pycnocline, and the DCM.

Origin

1950s: from Greek puknos 'thick' + cline.

 
 

Definition of pycnocline in US English:

pycnocline

nounˈpiknəˌklīn
Geography
  • A layer in an ocean or other body of water in which water density increases rapidly with depth.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Saline and warm Mediterranean water flowing through the Bosporus Strait maintains a permanent pycnocline.
    • The polar regions are the only places where deep waters are ever exposed to the atmosphere because the pycnocline is not always present.
    • Specifically, more oceanographic research in Hudson Bay, particularly documenting pycnocline development, is needed.
    • Deployments of the HRS and measurements of microscale turbulence were made simultaneously in the mixed surface layer, the pycnocline, and the DCM.
    • Bezys and Risk suggested that the black shales and mudstone facies were the results of a stratified water column with a pycnocline.

Origin

1950s: from Greek puknos ‘thick’ + cline.

 
 
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