Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Saline or salty character or quality; degree of saltiness; salineness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Salineness.

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  • noun The quality of being saline.
  • noun chemistry The concentration of salt in a solution.

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  • noun the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
  • noun the relative proportion of salt in a solution

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Examples

  • Blood is like seawater in salinity, perhaps like microscopic soup in makeup.

    ID Research, Look to the Example 2005

  • Soil salinity is rising on irrigated land which accounts for some 40 per cent of the world's food crops.

    Prairie Agriculture: An Important Part of Canada's Future 2000

  • Further, some types are also adapted to salinity, which is often a problem in semiarid lands.

    1 Introduction and Summary 1985

  • As a result, it stores and exports less freshwater and the salt concentration (also referred to as salinity) of the Arctic Ocean declines.

    Zee News : India National 2010

  • As a result, it stores and exports less freshwater and the salt concentration (also referred to as salinity) of the Arctic Ocean declines.

    dailyindia.com News Feed 2010

  • Physiological barriers to movement such as salinity tolerances or velocity barriers (i.e., currents) will possibly restrict range extensions where physical barriers to migration (e.g., waterfalls, non-connected drainage basins) do not exist.

    Climate change effects on arctic freshwater fish populations 2009

  • Parameters such as salinity, temperature and nutrient levels are measured.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » The Great Barrier Reef and a network of sensors 2006

  • Watering patterns that encourage shallow rootedness can lead to other problems such as salinity (section 12.6.2) or roots growing primarily in upper soil layers where temperatures are high, both of which can inhibit growth and kill the plant in severe cases.

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • Mark nodded in his neoprofessional way, reaching for the terminal and requesting "salinity" from the machine.

    Eve's Rib Chandler, Bryn 1989

  • Assuming that the organisms under consideration for coastal mariculture are indigenous, physical factors such as salinity and temperature should not be limiting at normal animal densities.

    4 Coastal Mariculture 1987

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  • I am told these men are the salt of the earth

         (I cannot testify to their salinity,

         all I can see is they scratch their genitals).

    Some may be worse, none can be more disgusting.

         Guttural bucolics ham-philosophise,

         the gormless spout politics 'Them MPs

    is thick as shit, thick as shit them MPs.'

    - Peter Reading, New Start, from Fiction, 1979

    June 26, 2008

  • What a salient citation.

    June 26, 2008