seabed

noun

sea·bed ˈsē-ˌbed

variants or less commonly sea bed

plural seabeds also sea beds

: the floor of a sea or ocean : seafloor

This atoll is the summit of an undersea volcano that rises from the seabed 10,000 feet below the surface.—

Kennedy Warne

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Yet the blue economy, especially industries like seabed and deep sea mining, can worsen the ocean's ability to act as a carbon sink and can worsen overall climate change. —

Devika Rao, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024 Sliding data centers into giant tubes and anchoring them to seabeds may help Big Tech avoid runaway meltdowns—and high cooling costs. —

Jason Kehe, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2018 Only after keeping silent for 76 years, and after the United Nations referred to the possible existence of natural resources underneath the adjacent seabed, did China start making their territorial claims, rather abruptly. —

Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2013 During the twentieth century, decades of looting by divers and unlicensed salvage companies stripped some seabeds clean. —

Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for seabed