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Mariana Trench

[ mair-ee-ah-nuh trench, mar- ]

noun

  1. the world’s deepest oceanic trench, a crescent-shaped depression located in the western Pacific Ocean, south and west of the Mariana Islands: site of the Challenger Deep.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Mariana Trench1

First recorded in 1930–35; named after the Mariana Islands
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Example Sentences

Only one other fish, a closely-related Mariana Trench-dweller called the ethereal snailfish, has ever been found deeper.

For the Mariana Trench test, the bot was connected to a conventional underwater robot for support and photo ops while it flapped its wings.

The goal was to get a human being to the bottom of the Mariana Trench for the first time since Cameron was a 5-year-old.

It reached the lowest point of the Mariana Trench in 2009, which is thousands of meters lower than Mount Everest is tall.

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