transoceanic
IPA: trænzoʊʃiˈænɪk
adjective
- beyond or on the other side of an ocean
- crossing an ocean
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Examples of "transoceanic" in Sentences
- They dissipated before traveling transoceanic distances.
- It was a transoceanic as well as a transcontinental system.
- He had been employed primarily as a barber aboard transoceanic ships.
- Once again, a rafting event may explain this transoceanic colonization.
- This marked the first scheduled transoceanic route from Salt Lake City.
- Both share an unusual passion racing transoceanic yachts around the world.
- Single development aircraft for a planned 50 passenger transoceanic transport.
- 90There is every indication that various of these populations were, until the seventh century CE, involved in transoceanic commercial exchanges.
- The story of how the first telegraph transoceanic telegraph cable was laid in 1858 takes up only a few pages but is, typically for "Atlantic," riveting.
- Delta also plans to have 50 of its transoceanic airplanes outfitted with flat-bed seats in business class by next summer, and double that number by 2013.
- Note 1: I believe that this approach would serve us well in transoceanic diasporic studies, as they too commonly are steeped in homogenous ideas about African religious and intellectual histories. back
- Researchers increasingly think that the most important cargo on these early transoceanic voyages was not silk and silver but an unruly menagerie of plants and animals, many of them accidental stowaways.
- The expansion project will more than double the Canal's capacity, enabling it to accommodate ships that are now too large to transverse the transoceanic crossway, and should help to reduce the high unemployment rate.
- The original A9/A10 transoceanic missile idea of Von Braun had been found to be unworkable due to heat transfer issues, but the ever-growing army of engineers, technicians, and slave laborers had solved those problems long ago.
- Noting that more then 400,000 commercial flights cross the Atlantic annually, a wistful Mr. Winchester writes: "The casual public acceptance of transoceanic air travel has dulled us to the wonders and beauties and the preciousness of the sea below."
- They corroborate what people have long suspected, based on such early written sources as Periplus of Maris Erythraei; that is, that East African inhabitants have engaged in transoceanic exchanges since at least, and most likely before, the start of the first millennium CE.
- And on top of that, there was later archaeological evidence that suggested people living and working along the Swahili Coast had been persistent agents in transoceanic networks connecting Africa with contemporaneous European and Asian societies, economies, and politics since as early as the late first millennium CE.