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Pacific Ocean

name

Etymology

cf. Pacific. Portuguese explorer Magellan called the ocean pacífico (“peaceful”) (in c. 1519) because, after sailing through the stormy seas off Cape Horn, the expedition found calm waters.

Definitions

  1. An ocean, the world's largest body of water, to the east of Asia and Australasia and to…

    An ocean, the world's largest body of water, to the east of Asia and Australasia and to the west of the Americas.

    • The Santa Barbara oil spill has environmentalists and California officials scrambling as an estimated 105,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Pacific Ocean and onto the Golden State’s coast.
    • In a Saturday news release, NORAD said the fighters were working to redirect the turboprop west, out over the Pacific Ocean, before it crashed on Ketron Island.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA