Usually means: Submerged perimeter around a continent.
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  1. continental shelf: Merriam-Webster
  2. continental shelf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. continental shelf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. continental shelf: Collins English Dictionary
  5. continental shelf: Vocabulary.com
  6. continental shelf: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. continental shelf: Wiktionary
  8. continental shelf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. continental shelf: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. continental shelf: Dictionary.com
  11. Continental Shelf, Continental shelf: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  13. continental shelf: FreeDictionary.org
  14. continental shelf: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  16. continental shelf: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. continental shelf: Encyclopedia

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  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  2. continental shelf: Natural History Terms

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. Continental Shelf: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (continental shelf)

▸ noun:  (oceanography) The outer area of a land mass covered by a shallow sea that extends into open ocean.

Similar:
seashore, nearshore, shoreland, shore, Inland Sea, marginal sea, strand, Mediterranean Sea, ocean floor, seabed, more...

Opposite:
oceanic trench, abyssal plain, deep sefloor

Types:
Bering Shelf, Chukchi Shelf, Beaufort Shelf, ScotiShelf, Labrador Shelf, Greenland She, more...

Phrases:
Outer Continental Shelf, Norwegian continental shelf, United Kingdom Continental Shelf, North Sea Continental Shelf cases, Convention on the Continental Shelf, more...

Adjectives:
longshore, shorefront, riparian, bay, lakefront, stoss, midlittoral, rivery, inshore, shoal, maritime

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Similar:
seashore, nearshore, shoreland, shore, Inland Sea, marginal sea, strand, Mediterranean Sea, ocean floor, seabed, more...

Opposite:
oceanic trench, abyssal plain, deep sefloor

Types:
Bering Shelf, Chukchi Shelf, Beaufort Shelf, ScotiShelf, Labrador Shelf, Greenland She, more...

Phrases:
Outer Continental Shelf, Norwegian continental shelf, United Kingdom Continental Shelf, North Sea Continental Shelf cases, Convention on the Continental Shelf, Continental Shelf Station Two, more...

Adjectives:
longshore, shorefront, riparian, bay, lakefront, stoss, midlittoral, rivery, inshore, shoal, maritime



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