SALTWATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saltwater mean? 

• SALTWATER (noun)
  The noun SALTWATER has 1 sense:

1. water containing salts

  Familiarity information: SALTWATER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALTWATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Water containing salts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

brine; saltwater; seawater

Context example:

the water in the ocean is all saltwater

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

H2O; water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)

Meronyms (substance of "saltwater"):

atomic number 35; Br; bromine (a nonmetallic heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens; found in sea water)

atomic number 53; I; iodin; iodine (a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks))

atomic number 19; K; potassium (a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite)

atomic number 11; Na; sodium (a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt))

common salt; sodium chloride (a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl))

calcium chloride (a deliquescent salt; used in de-icing and as a drying agent)

evaporite (the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saltwater"):

red tide (seawater that is discolored by large numbers of certain dinoflagellates that produce saxitoxin)

Antonym:

fresh water (water that is not salty)

 Context examples 

M. marinum is commonly found in bodies of fresh or saltwater and skin infections in humans are usually acquired from contact with aquariums or fish.

(Mycobacterium marinum, NCI Thesaurus)

By watching the rocking motion of the two aurorae, scientists were able to determine that a large amount of saltwater exists beneath Ganymede’s crust affecting its magnetic field.

(Hubble Observations Suggest Underground Ocean on Jupiter's Largest Moon, NASA)

The technology could work wherever fresh and saltwater mix, but coastal wastewater treatment plants offer particular potential since they are located near saltwater environments.

(Researchers develop technology to harness energy from mixing of freshwater and seawater, National Science Foundation)

Similarly, with saltwater intrusion into coastal freshwater wetlands, increasing sulfate inhibits microbial methane formation, or methanogenesis.

(Methane-eating microorganisms help regulate emissions from wetlands, NSF)

The region was bisected by a shallow saltwater body during a time of high global sea level.

(Ancient Saharan seaway illustrates how Earth’s climate and creatures can undergo extreme change, National Science Foundation)

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.

(Hubble Observations Suggest Underground Ocean on Jupiter's Largest Moon, NASA)