SALINITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salinity mean? 

• SALINITY (noun)
  The noun SALINITY has 2 senses:

1. the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

2. the relative proportion of salt in a solution

  Familiarity information: SALINITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALINITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

salinity; salt; saltiness

Hypernyms ("salinity" is a kind of...):

gustatory perception; gustatory sensation; taste; taste perception; taste sensation (the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The relative proportion of salt in a solution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

brininess; salinity

Hypernyms ("salinity" is a kind of...):

saltiness (the property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution))

Derivation:

saline (containing salt)

 Context examples 

In addition, Sargassum only grows well when salinity is normal and surface temperatures are normal or cooler.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

Different species of diatoms living in ocean and lakes have affinities for different environmental conditions such as alkalinity, available nutrients, salinity and acidity.

(Diatom, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

The results found that mussels piled up in mounds around salt grass stems helped to protect the grasses by improving water storage around their roots and reducing soil salinity.

(Biodiversity in salt marshes builds climate resilience, NSF)

The team gathered and analyzed around-the-clock measurements of the depth, salinity, and temperature of channel waters and their intersection with the coastal edge of Greenland's ice sheet.

(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)