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continental shelf: the relatively shallow (up to 200 meters) seabed surrounding a continent

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premises collapse: land and the buildings on it; "bread is baked on the premises"; "the were evicted from the premises"

heartland collapse: the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture

sandbank collapse: a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide

coral reef collapse: a reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone

sandbar collapse: a bar of sand

precincts collapse

confines collapse: a bounded scope; "he stayed within the confines of the city"

purlieus collapse

environs collapse: an outer adjacent area of any place

neighborhood collapse: people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush"

vicinity collapse: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"

department collapse: a specialized sphere of knowledge; "baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature"; a specialized division of a large organization; "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury"; the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)

hinterland collapse

corridor collapse: an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it

air space collapse

district collapse: a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

country collapse: the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"; an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"

salient collapse: (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy; (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees

reef collapse: a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water; reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef; roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area; lower and bring partially inboard; "reef the sailboat's mast"

isle collapse: a small island

atoll collapse: an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon

cay collapse

archipelago collapse: a group of many islands in a large body of water

milieu collapse: the environmental condition

on the shelf collapse

superseded collapse

outworn collapse

outdated collapse

relinquished collapse: given up often unwillingly; "a relinquishment is a piece of relinquished or abandoned land"; that has been withdrawn or retreated from

terrain collapse: a piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential; "they decided to attack across the rocky terrain"

disused collapse: no longer in use; "obsolete words"

outmoded collapse

limbo collapse: (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals); an imaginary place for lost or neglected things

superannuated collapse

island collapse: a zone or area resembling an island; a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water

archaic collapse: little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"

hill of beans collapse

bagatelle collapse: a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over; something of little value or significance; a light piece of music for piano

soil collapse: the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock

cold storage collapse: refrigerated storage for preservation; in a state of abeyance or postponement

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