salinity

English

Etymology

From saline +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈlɪnɪti/

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• (US, Canada, General Australian) IPA^(key): /səˈlɪnɪti/, [səˈlɪnɪɾi]

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Noun

salinity (countable and uncountable, plural salinities)

1. The quality of being saline.
2. (chemistry) The concentration of salt in a solution.

Synonyms

• salineness
• saltiness

Derived terms

• Messinian salinity crisis

Translations

quality of being saline

Bulgarian: соленост f (solenost) Estonian: soolsus Finnish: suolaisuus (fi) Galician: salinidade (gl) f Georgian: მარილიანობა (marilianoba) Indonesian: salinitas (id) Irish: salandacht f Italian: salinità (it) f Kazakh: тұздылық (tūzdylyq) Kyrgyz: туздуулук (tuzduuluk) Latin: salsugo f Latvian: sāļums m Norwegian: Bokmål: saltholdighet m or f, salinitet m Persian: شوری (fa) (šuri) Polish: słoność (pl) f Portuguese: salinidade (pt) f Russian: солёность (ru) f (soljónostʹ) Spanish: salinidad (es) f Tagalog: pagkamaalat Turkish: tuzluluk (tr) Vietnamese: độ mặn

concentration of salt

Arabic: مِلْحِيَّة f (milḥiyya) Bulgarian: соленост f (solenost) Catalan: salinitat f Chinese: Mandarin: 鹽度 / 盐度 (zh) (yándù) Finnish: suolapitoisuus (fi) French: salinité (fr) Galician: salinidade (gl) f Greek: περιεκτικότητα σε άλατα (periektikótita se álata) Indonesian: salinitas (id) Irish: salandacht f Kazakh: тұздылық (tūzdylyq) Kyrgyz: туздуулук (tuzduuluk) Latvian: sāļums m Polish: zasolenie (pl) n Portuguese: salinidade (pt) f Russian: солёность (ru) f (soljónostʹ) Spanish: salinidad (es) f Tagalog: pagkamaalat Turkish: tuzluluk (tr) Vietnamese: độ muối (vi)

References

• “salinity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Styliani, isatinyl