Glossary of Oceanographic Terms


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This glossary was prepared to provide the oceanographic community in general with definitions of technical terms used in oceanography and allied marine sciences. For the most part, the terms and definitions cited here represent usage in the marine aspects of physics, chemistry, biology, geology, geophysics, geography, mathematics, and meteorology, particularly in the manner that these terms are used in the U. S. Naval Oceanographic Office research, operations, and publications.




Glossary of Oceanographic Terms


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NBS Special Publication


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Glossary of Oceanographic Terms


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National Union Catalog


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Includes entries for maps and atlases.













Foreign-language and English Dictionaries in the Physical Sciences and Engineering


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The bibliography lists over 2800 unilingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias in the physical sciences, engineering and technology published during the past twelve years.The majority of the titles cited have English as the xource or target language, or are dictionaries giving definitions * in English.The bibliographic entries are arranged in 49 subject classes; within each subject, the entries are listed alphabetically by language, and within each language group by author.Forty-seven foreign languages are represented in the compilation.Lists of abbreviations and reference sources, and detailed author, language, and subject indexes complement the publication. (Author).