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Definition of Salinity
1. Noun. The taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth.
Generic synonyms: Gustatory Perception, Gustatory Sensation, Taste, Taste Perception, Taste Sensation
Derivative terms: Salt, Salt, Salty, Salty
2. Noun. The relative proportion of salt in a solution.
Definition of Salinity
1. n. Salineness.
Definition of Salinity
1. Noun. The quality of being saline. ¹
2. Noun. (chemistry) The concentration of salt in a solution. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Salinity
1. a concentration of salt [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Salinity
Literary usage of Salinity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"For the quantitative determination of the salinity an obvious, easy, ... Of the
arithmetical relation between salinity on the one hand and S and < on the ..."
2. The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde) by Eduard Suess (1906)
"salinity within tlie Skager Rack. When, in 1807, Leopold von Buch ... salinity is
the most important element in determining the density of the water. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The alkalinity of North Atlantic water of 35 per mille salinity is 26-86 cc.
per litre, corresponding to a total amount of carbonic acid of 49-07 cc. ..."
4. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"Since variations in the salinity of water are being constantly produced, motion
due to inequalities of density resulting from inequalities of salinity, ..."
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