north pacific

1. 1.

   that part of the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator

   Broaderpart

   Part ofPacific

Questions about north pacific

What does north pacific mean?

north pacific means "that part of the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator".

Is north pacific a common word?

north pacific 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.