INDIAN OCEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indian Ocean mean? 

• INDIAN OCEAN (noun)
  The noun INDIAN OCEAN has 1 sense:

1. the 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south

  Familiarity information: INDIAN OCEAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIAN OCEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

ocean (a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere)

Meronyms (parts of "Indian Ocean"):

Ceylon (an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India)

Comoro Islands; Iles Comores (three main islands and numerous islets in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar)

Madagascar (an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa; the 4th largest island in the world)

Maldive Islands; Maldives (a group of about 1,200 small coral islands (about 220 inhabited) in the Indian ocean)

Mauritius (an island in the southwestern Indian Ocean)

Seychelles; Seychelles islands (a group of about 90 islands in the western Indian Ocean to the north of Madagascar)

Antarctic Ocean (the southern waters surrounding Antarctica)

Arabian Sea (a northwestern arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Arabia)

Bay of Bengal (an arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India)

Gulf of Aden (arm of the Indian Ocean at the entrance to the Red Sea)

Mozambique Channel (an arm of the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and southeastern Africa)

Red Sea (a long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia; linked to the Mediterranean at the north end by the Suez Canal)

Timor Sea (an arm of the eastern Indian Ocean between Timor and northern Australia)

 Context examples 

A group of islands in the Indian Ocean, south of Indonesia and west of Christmas Island.

(Cocos (Keeling) Islands, NCI Thesaurus)

Islands in the Indian Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica.

(Heard Island and McDonald Islands, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in Southern Africa, occupying an island in the Indian Ocean, east of Mozambique.

(Madagascar, NCI Thesaurus)

Currently there are two sanctuaries—one in the Indian Ocean, and another one around Antarctica.

(Brazil to support South Atlantic whale sanctuary bid, Agência BRASIL)

The residence time (presence) of MJO clouds have shortened over the Indian Ocean by 3—4 days and increased over the west Pacific by 5—6 days.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

An Australian-administered island in the eastern Indian Ocean south of Java, Indonesia.

(Christmas Island, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of islands in the Indian Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica, southeast of the French Southern and Antarctic Islands.

(Heard Island and McDonald Islands, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Southern Asia, occupying a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean, south-southwest of India.

(Maldives, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A group of islands in the Indian Ocean, south of Indonesia, about halfway from Australia to Sri Lanka.

(Cocos (Keeling) Islands, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in southern Asia, occupying a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean, south-southwest of India and north of the British Indian Ocean Territory.

(Maldives, NCI Thesaurus)