OCEANOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oceanography mean? 

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

1. the branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCEANOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

oceanography; oceanology

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

earth science (any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts)

Domain member category:

El Nino ((oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time)

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

hydrography (the science of the measurement and description and mapping of the surface waters of the earth with special reference to navigation)

Derivation:

oceanographer (a scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas)

 Context examples 

That's going to be a very interesting question in the future, said first author Melinda Webster, an oceanography graduate student at the University of Washington.

(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)