PACIFIC OCEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pacific Ocean mean? 

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

1. the largest ocean in the world

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACIFIC OCEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest ocean in the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Pacific; Pacific Ocean

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Pacific Ocean"):

Puget Sound (an inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State)

Coral Sea (an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia)

East China Sea (part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia)

Gulf of Alaska (a gulf of the Pacific Ocean between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago)

Gulf of Tehuantepec (an arm of the Pacific in southern Mexico)

Inland Sea (an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern Japan; surrounded by the islands of Honshu and Shikoku and Kyushu and linked to the Sea of Japan by a narrow channel; the chief port is Hiroshima)

North Pacific (that part of the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator)

Osaka Bay (a bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu)

Pacific Coast (a coast of the Pacific Ocean)

Bering Sea (part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia; connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait)

San Diego Bay (a bay of the Pacific in southern California)

San Francisco Bay (a bay of the Pacific in western California)

East Sea; Sea of Japan (an arm of the Pacific bordered by Japan, Korea, North Korea, and Russia)

Sea of Okhotsk (an arm of the Pacific to the east of Asia)

South China Sea (a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons)

South Pacific (that part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator)

Tasman Sea (an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean between southeastern Australia and New Zealand)

Huang Hai; Yellow Sea (part of the Pacific off the east coast of Asia)

Arafura Sea (a part of the western Pacific Ocean to the north of Australia and to the south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia)

Guadalupe Island (a Mexican island in the Pacific to the west of Baja California)

Aleutian Islands; Aleutians (an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska)

Oceania; Oceanica (a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago))

Australasia (Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific)

Austronesia (islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia))

Wake; Wake Island (an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii)

East India; East Indies; Malay Archipelago (a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia)

New Guinea (a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea)

Japan; Japanese Archipelago; Japanese Islands (a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean)

Volcano Islands (a group of Japanese Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the Marianas)

New Zealand; New Zealand Islands (North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific)

Belau; Palau; Palau Islands; Pelew (a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean)

Philippine Islands; Philippines (an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands)

Catalina Island; Santa Catalina (an island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California)

Antarctic Ocean (the southern waters surrounding Antarctica)

Domain member region:

invasion of Iwo; Iwo; Iwo Jima (a bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945))

battle of the Philippine Sea; Philippine Sea (a naval battle in World War II (1944); a decisive naval victory for the United States fleet over the Japanese who were trying to block supplies from reaching American troops on Leyte)

 Context examples 

The researchers used the data to build a computer model meant to mimic the circulation of water in the Pacific Ocean over the past century and a half.

(Bottom of Pacific Found to Be Getting Colder, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In May, the southeastern rim of the interior crater wall was washed over by the Pacific Ocean, opening the crater lake to the ocean.

(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)

Based on the core samples they collected in 2010, they believe that oxygen and aerobic microbes occur throughout the sediment in up to 37 percent of the world's oceans and 44 percent of the Pacific Ocean.

(No limit to life in deep sediment of ocean's "deadest" region, NSF)

For most living things, arsenic is a deadly poison, but new research shows that microorganisms are breathing arsenic in a large area of the Pacific Ocean.

(Arsenic-breathing microbes discovered in the tropical Pacific Ocean, National Science Foundation)

The project was designed to establish a baseline for ambient noise in the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean.

(Seven miles deep, the ocean is still a noisy place, NOAA)

An island group in the South Pacific Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand.

(Fiji, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A state in south western Mexico on the Pacific Ocean.

(Michoacan, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, southwest of Wallis and Fortuna and east of Vanuatu.

(Fiji, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in southeastern Asia, comprising the archipelago and islands between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, north of Australia.

(Indonesia, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in the Pacific, comprised of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about midway between Peru and New Zealand, southeast of French Polynesia.

(Pitcairn, NCI Thesaurus)