salinity
/səˈlɪnɪti/US/səˈlɪnɪti/
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salinity noun: the quality of being saline.
Noun
salinity (countable and uncountable, plural salinities)
- The quality of being saline.
- The concentration of salt in a solution.
salinity meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Tagalog and Arabic
salinity in Tamil
- உப்புத்தன்மை, உவர்ப்பு, உமிழ்நீர், எச்சில், உப்பளவு, உப்புத்திறன்
salinity in Kannada
- ಲವಣತ್ವ, ಕ್ಷಾರತೆ, ಲವಣತೆ
salinity in Tagalog
- quality of being saline
- pagkamaalat
- concentration of salt
- pagkamaalat
salinity in Arabic
- concentration of salt
- مِلْحِيَّة milḥiyya
More languagesFewer languages
- salinity in Indonesian
- salinitas
- salinity in Persian
- شوری šuri
- salinity in Vietnamese
- độ mặn, độ muối
Synonyms of salinity
Forms of salinity
| plural | salinities |
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Origin of salinity
From saline + -ity.
Words formed from salinity
Questions about salinity
- What does salinity mean?
- Salinity means the quality of being saline.
- What is salinity in Tamil?
- Salinity in Tamil is உப்புத்தன்மை, உவர்ப்பு, உமிழ்நீர். See Salinity meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is salinity?
- Salinity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce salinity?
- Salinity is pronounced /səˈlɪnɪti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of salinity?
- The plural of salinity is salinities.
Words near salinity in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: salinity (page history and authors); salinity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); salinity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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