Definition of North Atlantic

1. Noun. That part of the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator.

Group relationships: Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean
Terms within: Irish Sea
Generic synonyms: Part, Piece

Definition of North Atlantic

1. Proper noun. The portion of the Atlantic Ocean that lies primarily between North America and the northeast coast of South America to the east, and Europe and the northwest coast of Africa to the west. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of North Atlantic

Nortes
Norteño
North
North Aegean
North Africa
North African
North America
North American
North American Indian
North American Indians
North American blastomycosis
North American country
North American nation
North Americans
North Andover
North Atlantic (current term)
North Atlantic Council
North Atlantic Ocean
North Atlantic Treaty
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
North Australia
North Borneo
North Brabant
North Britain
North Briton
North Britons
North Cackalack
North Cackalacky
North Carolina
North Carolinian

Literary usage of North Atlantic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The Atlantic division is also subdivided, by a lino following the south boundary of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, into the North Atlantic and South Atlantic ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"(i) The North Atlantic, comprising North America and Europe down to N. lat. 30° ; (2) The West American, from Bering Strait to Tierra del Fuego; ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"This exact agreement strongly suggests that the rate of sea-floor spreading did not vary greatly in the North Atlantic during the past 80 million years. ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1869)
"SURFACE TEMPERATURE OF THE North Atlantic. Iceland, Greenland, &c., I believe also to be a proof that the Gulf Stream sends its waters far to the north. ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"Of the floats which had been thus launched in four different parts of the North Atlantic, 227 were sent bick to me, and I have carefully studied their ..."

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