Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The exploration and scientific study of the ocean and its phenomena.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of the ocean: a special branch of geography.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A description of the ocean.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
exploration andscientific study of theoceans and oceanfloor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans
Etymologies
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Examples
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Curtis Ebbesmeyer holds a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington.
Flotsametrics and the Floating World by Curtis Ebbesmeyer: Book summary 2010
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As I understand it, oceanography is the study of the oceans, hence an oceanographer is one who studies the oceans, which in this case are eating away at East Anglia.
Operation Beachhead 2008
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She talks about her research, her background and women in oceanography:
Archive 2007-05-01 Peggy 2007
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With the intervention of Pettersson's father, the wealthy Swede Knut Mark offered funds for a new chair in oceanography at the Göteborg Högskola, which Pettersson easily obtained.
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She talks about her research, her background and women in oceanography:
Late spring cleaning: Interviews and Profiles of Woman Scientists Peggy 2007
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Ned and company do certainly get some education in oceanography and marine biology along the way.
Archive 2007-04-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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I contemplated majors in oceanography, chemistry and linguistics; I enjoyed math (except for geometry) in school.
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The carbon-14 method has also been applied in oceanography, for example, for the dating of relatively recent sea sediments.
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To give an idea of the special nature of some of the equipment, I will say that some of the scientific instruments used in oceanography were not on the market anywhere in the world, and were to be had only from the Prince of Monaco, the greatest of living oceanographers.
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Young women starting out in oceanography don’t face any of the issues that I did.
Archive 2007-05-01 Peggy 2007
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