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adjective
Etymology: therm- + Greek hal-, hals salt — more at salt
Date: 1942
involving or dependent upon the conjoint effect of temperature and salinity <thermohaline circulation in the Pacific>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
thermohaline
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