seabed (redirected from Underwater seafloor exploration)

sea·bed  (sbd)

n.

The floor of the sea or the ocean.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

seabed - the bottom of a sea or ocean         Davy Jones, Davy Jones's locker, ocean bottom, ocean floor, sea bottom, sea floor abyssal zone - the deep sea (2000 meters or more) where there is no light bed, bottom - a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" continental shelf - the relatively shallow (up to 200 meters) seabed surrounding a continent bathyal district, bathyal zone, continental slope - the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone neritic zone - the ocean waters from the low tide mark to a depth of about 100 fathoms twilight zone - the lowest level of the ocean to which light can reach

Translations

seabed sea bed [ˈsiːbɛd] n → fonds mpl marins