Usually means: Steep descent from shelf to deep.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. continental slope: Merriam-Webster
  2. continental slope: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. continental slope: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. continental slope: Vocabulary.com
  5. continental slope: Wiktionary
  6. continental slope: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. continental slope: Dictionary.com
  8. Continental slope: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. continental slope: Rhymezone
  10. continental slope: FreeDictionary.org
  11. continental slope: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. continental slope: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. continental slope: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. continental slope: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  2. continental slope: Natural History Terms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See continental_slopes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (continental slope)

noun:  (geology) The steep, narrow fringe separating the coastal zone from the deep ocean

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