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 Translation for 'continent' from English to Russian
ADJ   continent | more continent | most continent
NOUN   a continent | continents
SYNO celibate | continent
геогр.
материк {м}
continent
геогр.
континент {м}
continent
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Translation for 'continent' from English to Russian

continent
материк {м}геогр.

континент {м}геогр.
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Usage Examples English
  • The qualifying added a continental quota - in the event of an unrepresented continent, the top team from that continent earned a spot.
  • Note: A 'continent' for the purpose of water divides may not correspond to a geopolitical or geophysical continent.
  • With over 20 denominations in the continent, World Methodist Council has 17.08 members in the whole continent.
  • This race is the longest continent-to-continent yacht race in the southern hemisphere.
  • There are three continents, a tropical continent (Campannlat), a northern continent (Sibornal) and a southern continent (Hespagorat).

  • The point of divergence occurs around 85 million years ago when the eastern portion of the North American continent splits off from the rest of the continent and forms Atlantis, a separate continent farther east in the Atlantic Ocean.
  • The best ranked teams of each continent in the 2019 World Championship represent the continent in order to determine the continental ranking.
  • North of Maztica is the continent of Anchorome. South of it (and separated by a strait) lies an unknown continent.
  • Some agreements that are mostly related to countries of the European continent, are also valid in territories outside the continent.
  • The base of rocks that underlie Borneo, an island in Southeast Asia, was formed by the arc-continent collisions, continent–continent collisions and subduction–accretion due to convergence between the Asian, India–Australia, and Philippine Sea-Pacific plates over the last 400 million years.

  • Athletes from nations that were unable to create a team by themselves were first paired off by continent and then intercontinental.
  • It is a continent north of Consume continent.
  • While Antarctica does have some small areas of tundra on the northern fringes, the vast majority of the continent is extremely cold and permanently frozen.
  • During Late Cretaceous times, the North American Continent was divided by an inland sea into two subcontinents: a western continent now known as "Laramidia", and an eastern continent named "Appalachia".
  • The continent didn't split into two because the Grenville province (a microcontinent) was converging with the proto-North American continent to the east.

  • A transcontinental walk involves crossing a continent on foot.
  • Aktarka has at least two continents and a variety of archipelagos in its oceans.
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