Pacific
The Pacific Ocean.
Adjective
- Related to or located in the Pacific Ocean.
- The US Air Force plans to bring the Pacific island airfield that launched the atomic bombings of Japan back into commission as it tries to broaden its basing options in the event of any hostilities with China, the...
Origin
From Latin pācificus (“peace-making”), so called by Magellan because he sailed peacefully over it after weathering Cape Horn.
Derived
Eastern Pacific giant conch Great Pacific Garbage Patch Indo-Pacific North Pacific right whale Pacific American Pacifican Pacific Bermuda Triangle Pacific blackchin Pacific County Pacific crabapple Pacific Crest Pacific Daylight Time Pacific diver Pacific Heights Pacific herring Pacific Islander Pacific Islander American Pacific Islands Pacific koel Pacific lamprey Pacific loon Pacific maple Pacific Northwest Pacific Palisades
Proper noun
- The Pacific Ocean.
- When our last plenary session was held in November of last year the Pacific was threatened with imminent outbreak of war. Since the subsequent beginning of the Japanese campaign of aggression in that ocean, China, in...
- The US Air Force plans to bring the Pacific island airfield that launched the atomic bombings of Japan back into commission as it tries to broaden its basing options in the event of any hostilities with China, the...
- A city in Franklin County, Missouri, United States.
Forms
Derived
Asia-Pacific Indo-Pacific Pacific Rim transpacific trans-Pacific War in the Pacific War of the Pacific
Noun
- A steam locomotive of the 4-6-2 wheel arrangement.
- Britannia's firebox would appear to have derived from those of the Bulleid Pacifics, which it closely resembles. - 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273:
- These were the first class of tender locomotives with this wheel arrangement in the world, although there is some doubt as to whether the name "Pacific" was given to the type because New Zealand is in the Pacific Ocean...