seamount

noun

sea·​mount ˈsē-ˌmau̇nt How to pronounce seamount (audio)
: a submarine mountain rising above the deep-sea floor

Examples of seamount in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web To be classified as a seamount, the summits must tower at least 3,300 above the surrounding seafloor. Mark Price, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024 The seamounts range from 5,220 to 8,796 feet high and reign over a mysterious submerged world that is largely unmapped, experts say. Mark Price, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024 Extracting those metals would mean deploying robots to strip the upper layers of seamounts and sulfide deposits. Todd Woody, Fortune Europe, 13 Jan. 2024 While prototypes of polymetallic nodule collectors have been deployed in the Pacific Ocean, machines to mine seamounts and sulfide deposits remain untested. Todd Woody, Fortune Europe, 13 Jan. 2024 Cocos Island [an island and national park located in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 kilometers [310 miles] off the Costa Rican coast] is part of a series of seamounts. Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024 The other contracts cover nodules in the Western Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, as well as massive sulfide deposits at hydrothermal vents in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and cobalt crusts that line the flanks and summits of seamounts at various Pacific sites. Olive Heffernan, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023 The streamers of pumice (likely each less than a few kilometers across) from the July 18, 2012 eruption of Havre seamount spreading across the Pacific Ocean. Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 22 Aug. 2012 The reefs and seamounts lie within the Galápagos Marine Reserve (GMR), a swath of the eastern Pacific Ocean spanning some 133,000 square kilometers. Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023

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First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of seamount was in 1941

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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seamount. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

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seamount

noun
sea·​mount ˈsē-ˌmau̇nt How to pronounce seamount (audio)
: a submarine mountain

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