continental slope

1. 1.

   the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone

   Synonymsbathyal zonebathyal district

   Broaderocean floor

Questions about continental slope

What does continental slope mean?

continental slope means "the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone".

What is another word for continental slope?

Close synonyms include bathyal zone, bathyal district. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is continental slope a common word?

continental slope is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.