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meromixis

meromixis noun: a circumstance where a body of water does not fully mix and circulate, causing stratification.

Noun

meromixis (uncountable)

  1. A circumstance where a body of water does not fully mix and circulate, causing stratification.
    • On the other hand, at least in a really deep tropical lake it is supposed that once thermal stratifiction is established it will be so quickly stabilized by chemical products of the lake's metabolism that meromixis will ordinarily ensue.1866, Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume 39, number 3, page 313
    • The crenogenic type of meromixis is characterised by a chemocline which lies at such a depth that as much salt water is mixed from its surface in unit time as enters the monimolimmion at that time.1937, Coe and Allen, “Growth of Sedentary Marine Organisms”, in Collected Papers - Osborn Zoological Society, volume 19, page 125

Origin of meromixis

Back-formation from meromictic.

Questions about meromixis

What does meromixis mean?
Meromixis means a circumstance where a body of water does not fully mix and circulate, causing stratification.
What part of speech is meromixis?
Meromixis is a noun.

Words near meromixis in the dictionary

  1. meromes
  2. meromictic
  3. meromictic lake
  4. meromictic lakes
  5. meromicticity
  6. meromixis
  7. meromorphic
  8. meromorphically
  9. meromorphy
  10. meromycolate
  11. meromycolates

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