EARTH'S SURFACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Earth's surface mean? 

• EARTH'S SURFACE (noun)
  The noun EARTH'S SURFACE has 1 sense:

1. the outermost level of the land or sea

  Familiarity information: EARTH'S SURFACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EARTH'S SURFACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The outermost level of the land or sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Earth's surface; surface

Context example:

three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water

Hypernyms ("Earth's surface" is a kind of...):

layer (a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another)

Meronyms (parts of "Earth's surface"):

body of water; water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean))

gap; opening (an open or empty space in or between things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Earth's surface"):

floor (the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water)

floor (the lower inside surface of any hollow structure)

Holonyms ("Earth's surface" is a part of...):

geosphere; lithosphere (the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle)

 Context examples 

There is still a chance that it could pass closer, but certainly no closer than 15,000 miles (24,000 kilometers) above Earth's surface.

(Small Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth March 8, NASA)

When water evaporates into water vapor here on Earth's surface and rises into the atmosphere, it carries with it the heat energy that made it evaporate.

(NASA Data Suggest Future May Be Rainier Than Expected, NASA)

"Good" ozone occurs naturally about 10 to 30 miles above the Earth's surface.

(Ozone, Environmental Protection Agency)

The subterranean ocean is thought to have more water than all the water on Earth's surface.

(Hubble Observations Suggest Underground Ocean on Jupiter's Largest Moon, NASA)

Though they occupy a small fraction of Earth's surface, freshwater wetlands are the largest natural source of methane emitted into the atmosphere.

(Methane-eating microorganisms help regulate emissions from wetlands, NSF)

The interactions may cause unstable patches of excess electrons in the ionosphere, an atmospheric region starting about 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth's surface that already contains ions and electrons.

(Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth, NASA)

Earth's surface falls locally when it is weighed down with water and rebounds when the weight disappears.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)

A unit equal to the volume in milliliters per one millimeter rise of mercury in a barometer at the Earth's surface.

(Milliliters Per Millimeter of Mercury, NCI Thesaurus)

In contrast, Earth's surface is quivering constantly from seismic noise created by oceans and weather.

(NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars, NASA)

Understanding thresholds and tipping points is fundamental to predicting the future behavior of Earth's surface under changing environmental conditions.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)