MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mid-Atlantic Ridge mean? 

• MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE (noun)
  The noun MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE has 1 sense:

1. a very long narrow elevation on the ocean floor that runs all the way from Iceland in the North Atlantic to Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic

  Familiarity information: MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very long narrow elevation on the ocean floor that runs all the way from Iceland in the North Atlantic to Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

ridge (a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean)

Holonyms ("Mid-Atlantic Ridge" is a part of...):

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

 Context examples 

To get those measurements, Girguis and colleagues targeted a site on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge dubbed the "North Pond."

(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)

A research team led by ecologists Sunita Shah Walter of the University of Delaware and Peter Girguis of Harvard University has shown that underground aquifers near the undersea Mid-Atlantic Ridge act like natural biological reactors, pulling in cold, oxygenated seawater, and allowing microbes to consume more refractory carbon than scientists believed.

(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)