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  2. Underwater exploration - Wikipedia

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    Underwater exploration is the exploration of any underwater environment, either by direct observation by the explorer, or by remote observation and measurement under the direction of the investigators. Systematic, targeted exploration is the most effective method to increase understanding of the ocean and other underwater regions, so they can ...

  3. WordNet - Wikipedia

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    WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms.The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples.

  4. List of underwater explorers - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable professional and amateur explorers who have personally explored the underwater environment and contributed towards expanding the knowledge and understanding of that environment.

  5. Specialized dictionary - Wikipedia

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    French-language specialized dictionaries (synonyms, etymologies, etc.). A specialized dictionary is a dictionary that covers a relatively restricted set of phenomena. The definitive book on the subject (Cowie 2009) includes chapters on some of the dictionaries included below: synonyms; pronunciations; names (place names and personal names)

  6. Deep-sea exploration - Wikipedia

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    Deep sea exploration apparatus, 1910. The sounding weight, one of the first instruments used for the sea bottom investigation, was designed as a tube on the base which forced the seabed in when it hit the bottom of the ocean.

  7. Glossary of geology - Wikipedia

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    Also called Indianite. A mineral from the lime-rich end of the plagioclase group of minerals. Anorthites are usually silicates of calcium and aluminium occurring in some basic igneous rocks, typically those produced by the contact metamorphism of impure calcareous sediments. anticline An arched fold in which the layers usually dip away from the fold axis. Contrast syncline. aphanic Having the ...

  8. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  9. Verb - Wikipedia

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    A verb (from Latin verbum 'word') is word that generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). In the usual description of English , the basic form, with or without the particle to , is the infinitive .