mid-atlantic ridge

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   a very long narrow elevation on the ocean floor that runs all the way from Iceland in the North Atlantic to Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic

   Broaderridge

   Part ofAtlantic

Questions about mid-atlantic ridge

What does mid-atlantic ridge mean?

mid-atlantic ridge means "a very long narrow elevation on the ocean floor that runs all the way from Iceland in the North Atlantic to Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic".

Is mid-atlantic ridge a common word?

mid-atlantic ridge 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.