salinity

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈlɪnɪti/

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)
• 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
• Russian: солёность (ru) f (soljónostʹ)
• Spanish: salinidad (es) f
• Turkish: tuzluluk (tr)
• Vietnamese: độ mặn

concentration of salt

• Arabic: مِلْحِيَّة f (milḥiyya)
• Bulgarian: соленост f (solenost)
• Catalan: salinitat f
• Finnish: suolapitoisuus (fi)
• French: salinité (fr)
• Galician: salinidade (gl) f
• Greek: περιεκτικότητα σε άλατα (periektikótita se álata)
• Irish: salandacht f
• Kazakh: тұздылық (tūzdylyq)
• Kyrgyz: туздуулук (tuzduuluk)
• Latvian: sāļums m
• Polish: zasolenie (pl) n
• Russian: солёность (ru) f (soljónostʹ)
• Spanish: salinidad (es) f
• 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