aquaworld

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

aqua- +‎ world

Noun[edit]

aquaworld (plural aquaworlds)

  1. A planet covered by a continuous ocean with no dry land
    • 2015, M. J. Way, A. D. Del Genio, M. Kelley, I. Aleinov, T. Clune, “Exploring the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone with Fully Coupled Oceans”, in arXiv[1]:
      The latter was recently demonstrated quite clearly by Hu & Yang 2014 in their aquaworld study with a FCO when compared with similar mixed layer ocean studies and by Cullum et al. 2014. We also show how these results have implications for Venus in the early history of our Solar System since even at this time Venus received more solar flux than Earth does today while it may still have had a slow retrograde rotation.