homothermic's Usage Examples:

Curve B shows the typical distribution of temperature in an enclosed sea, in this case the Sulu Basin of the Malay Sea, where from the level of the barrier to the bottom the temperature remains uniform or homothermic.

Thus in the Malay Sea the various minor seas or basins are homothermic below the depth of the rim, at the temperature prevailing at that depth in the open ocean: in the China Sea below 875 fathoms with 36.

To this group belongs the Arctic Sea; the Norwegian Sea is homothermic below J50 fathoms at 29.

Similarly in the Red Sea the water below 380 fathoms is homothermic at 70.

After a storm the whole of the water in the North Sea assumes a homothermic condition, i.

In other enclosed seas which are shut off from the ocean by a very shallow sill the rule holds good that the homothermic water below the level of the sill is at the lowest temperature reached by the surface water in the coldest season of the year, provided always that the stratification of salinity is such as to permit of convection being set up.

The Mediterranean Sea also belongs to this group; its various deep basins are homothermic (at the winter surface temperature) below the level of their respective sills - the Balearic Basin below 190 fathoms at 55° F.

Such homothermic masses of water are characteristic of all deep enclosed seas.

Synonyms:

warm-blooded, homeothermic, homoiothermic,

Antonyms:

cold-blooded, inhuman, cold, inhumane,