PACIFIC COAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pacific Coast mean? 

• PACIFIC COAST (noun)
  The noun PACIFIC COAST has 1 sense:

1. a coast of the Pacific Ocean

  Familiarity information: PACIFIC COAST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACIFIC COAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A coast of the Pacific Ocean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

coast; sea-coast; seacoast; seashore (the shore of a sea or ocean)

Holonyms ("Pacific Coast" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

 Context examples 

Another man at table who had swallowed the same bait was the superintendent of the Pacific Coast agencies for the Asa Bicycle Company.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The goal of the researchers' efforts is to use fiber-optic networks around the world — more than 10 million kilometers in all, on both land and under the sea — as sensitive measures of Earth's movement, allowing earthquake monitoring in regions that don't have ground stations such as those that dot much of earthquake-prone California and the Pacific Coast.

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)