Seamount is an English word with synonyms like mountain or mount. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Seamount meaning
An underwater mountain with a prominence of more than 1,000 meters, which does not breach the surface of the water.
Using Seamount
- The main meaning on this page is: An underwater mountain with a prominence of more than 1,000 meters, which does not breach the surface of the water.
- Useful related words include: mountain, mount.
- In the example corpus, seamount often appears in combinations such as: seamount is, the seamount, seamount in.
Context around Seamount
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Seamount
- In this selection, "seamount" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 18.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, justified, meteor, chains and atlantic stand out and add context to how "seamount" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include great meteor seamount atlantic ocean and justified seamount is a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "seamount" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with seamount
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The seamount is over 4300 metres high. (7 words)
This seamount was named Surtla, but never reached sea level. (10 words)
A series of ridges and seamount chains produced by hotspots pass over the Indian Ocean. (15 words)
Justified Seamount is a counterpiracy campaign run by U.S. special operators in Mogadishu, and psychological and intelligence operations in the country include Octave Shield, Octave Soundstage, Octave Stingray, and Octave Summit. (32 words)
Successive reduction of the last instar larva of Loricifera, as evidenced by two new species of Pliciloricus from the Great Meteor Seamount (Atlantic Ocean). (24 words)
The seamount in the Southern Pacific Ocean rises nearly 2 miles from the seafloor, some 900 miles off the coast of Chile. (22 words)
Example sentences (6)
Justified Seamount is a counterpiracy campaign run by U.S. special operators in Mogadishu, and psychological and intelligence operations in the country include Octave Shield, Octave Soundstage, Octave Stingray, and Octave Summit.
The seamount in the Southern Pacific Ocean rises nearly 2 miles from the seafloor, some 900 miles off the coast of Chile.
A series of ridges and seamount chains produced by hotspots pass over the Indian Ocean.
Successive reduction of the last instar larva of Loricifera, as evidenced by two new species of Pliciloricus from the Great Meteor Seamount (Atlantic Ocean).
The seamount is over 4300 metres high.
This seamount was named Surtla, but never reached sea level.
Common combinations with seamount
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- seamount is 2×
- the seamount 2×
- seamount in 2×