halistatic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Concerning an area of a sea or ocean that has no currents passing through it, especially the area at the centre of a gyre.
Example Sentences
- "Thus, by describing a great circle in the ocean, the Gulf Stream and its continuations in the North Atlantic form the boundary of an enormous eddy, which the German scientist Haeckel wished to regard as a "halistatic area." This is a term which you will not find in your dictionary or encyclopedia. It explains what Haeckel thought of the comparative changelessness of this portion of the ocean."
- "The Caspian Sea is encircled by a large cyclonic current, forming two powerful halistatic areas in the Southern and Central Caspian (Fig. 259). [...] There is a separate cyclonic current in the southern part of the Southern Caspian with its own halistatic area in the centre."