land masses

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• land mass — land masses also landmass N COUNT A land mass is a very large area of land such as a continent. ...the Antarctic landmass. ...the country s large land mass of 768 million hectares …   English dictionary

• land mass — noun a large continuous extent of land • Syn: ↑landmass • Hypernyms: ↑land, ↑dry land, ↑earth, ↑ground, ↑solid ground, ↑terra firma • Hypo …   Useful english dictionary

• land — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 surface of the earth ADJECTIVE ▪ dry ▪ It was good to be on dry land again after months at sea. VERB + LAND ▪ reach ▪ The explorers reached land after a long voyage …   Collocations dictionary

• land bridge — noun : a strip of land connecting two landmasses (as two continents or a continent and an island) * * * 1. Geol. an actual or hypothetical strip of land, subject to submergence, that connects adjacent continental landmasses and serves as a route… …   Useful english dictionary

• Land bridge (disambiguation) — A land bridge, in biogeography, is an isthmus or other land connection between what at other times are separate land masses which allows animals and plants to cross.Other uses:*Air rightsThe term land bridge sometimes refers to covering… …   Wikipedia

• land mass — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms land mass : singular land mass plural land masses a continent or large area of land surrounded by sea the Antarctic land mass …   English dictionary

• land bridge — noun a) in biogeography: an isthmus or other land connection between what at other times are separate land masses b) Travel by ferry from one country, via another country by road, then by another ferry crossing to a third country. An example is… …   Wiktionary

• land bridge — noun an area of land formerly connecting two land masses which are now separate …   English new terms dictionary

• Land use forecasting — undertakes to project the distribution and intensity of trip generating activities in the urban area. In practice, land use models are demand driven, using as inputs the aggregate information on growth produced by an aggregate economic… …   Wikipedia

• Franz Josef Land — Franz Josef Land, Franz Joseph Land, or Francis Joseph s Land (Russ. Земля Франца Иосифа , Zemlya Frantsa Iosifa ) is an archipelago located in the far north of Russia. It is found in the Arctic Ocean north of Novaya Zemlya and east of Svalbard,… …   Wikipedia

• Bequests For Masses (England) —     Bequests for Masses (England)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Bequests for Masses (England)     Before the Reformation dispositions of property, whether real or personal, for the purposes of Masses, were valid, unless where, in the case of real …   Catholic encyclopedia