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CONTINENTAL SLOPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does continental slope mean?
• CONTINENTAL SLOPE (noun)
The noun CONTINENTAL SLOPE has 1 sense:
1. the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone
Familiarity information: CONTINENTAL SLOPE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
bathyal district; bathyal zone; continental slope
Hypernyms ("continental slope" is a kind of...):
Davy Jones; Davy Jones's locker; ocean bottom; ocean floor; sea bottom; sea floor; seabed (the bottom of a sea or ocean)
Context examples
After hatching in the Sargasso Sea, eel larvae move more than 5,000 kilometers with the Gulf Stream until they reach the continental slope off Europe.
(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)
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