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NORTH ATLANTIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
That part of the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
part; piece (a portion of a natural object)
Meronyms (parts of "North Atlantic"):
Irish Sea (an arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland)
Holonyms ("North Atlantic" is a part of...):
Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)
Context examples:
An island between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada.
(Greenland, NCI Thesaurus)
An island group between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Iceland to Norway.
(Faroe Islands, NCI Thesaurus)
A country in northern Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, south of Spain and between Algeria and Western Sahara.
(Morocco, NCI Thesaurus)
A country in northern Europe, island between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the UK.
(Iceland, NCI Thesaurus)
A chain of extinct underwater volcanoes rising 1000m or higher above the sea floor, either flat-topped or peaked and located in the eastern North Atlantic.
(Dreizack seamounts, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
A country in western Europe, occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain.
(Ireland, NCI Thesaurus)
A group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, east of South Carolina.
(Bermuda, NCI Thesaurus)
Researchers say the accelerated ice loss is caused by a combination of global warming, as well as the North Atlantic oscillation, a periodic weather phenomenon that brings warmer air to western Greenland.
(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)
A country comprising the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Haiti.
(Dominican Republic, NCI Thesaurus)
They are especially abundant in tiny crustaceans such as krill and copepods — favorite prey of filter-feeding bowhead and endangered North Atlantic right whales.
(Whales may owe their efficient digestion to millions of tiny microbes, National Science Foundation)
