NORTH ATLANTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does North Atlantic mean? 

• NORTH ATLANTIC (noun)
  The noun NORTH ATLANTIC has 1 sense:

1. that part of the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator

  Familiarity information: NORTH ATLANTIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH ATLANTIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That part of the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

part; piece (a portion of a natural object)

Meronyms (parts of "North Atlantic"):

Irish Sea (an arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland)

Holonyms ("North Atlantic" is a part of...):

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

 Context examples 

The researchers' results, could help reveal how the climate of the North Atlantic region varies on long time scales.

(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)

An international team of scientists studied one of the key sections of the AMOC –where North Atlantic water sinks from the surface to the bottom of the ocean.

(A new study is the first to measure the time lags between changing ocean currents and major climate shifts., University of Cambridge)

A country in Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea and Senegal.

(Guinea-Bissau, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea and Senegal.

(Guinea-Bissau, NCI Thesaurus)

Islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east-southeast of Puerto Rico.

(Antigua and Barbuda, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A chain of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida and north of Cuba.

(Bahamas, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Senegal.

(Cape Verde, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Suriname and Venezuela.

(Guyana, NCI Thesaurus)

An island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Puerto Rico to Trinidad and Tobago.

(Dominica, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The new research illustrates how sudden climate changes that began in the North Atlantic around Greenland circulated southward, appearing in the Antarctic approximately 200 years later.

(Antarctic ice core reveals how sudden climate changes in North Atlantic moved south, NSF)