different between atoll vs guyot

English

Etymology

From Portuguese atol, from Malayalam ????? (atolu, “reef”) and Dhivehi ??????? (ato?u), from Persian ?????? (?b-tal, “water-hillock”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æt?l/, /??t?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æt?l/, /?æt?l/, /?æto?l/, /?e?t?l/, /?e?t?l/, /??t?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

atoll (plural atolls)

1. a type of island consisting of a ribbon reef that nearly or entirely surrounds a lagoon and supports, in most cases, one to many islets on the reef platform. Atolls have a unique geology, so not all islands with a reef and a lagoon are atolls

Translations

Further reading

• atoll on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• all to, allot

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.t?l/

Noun

atoll m (plural atolls)

1. atoll

Further reading

• “atoll” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Dhivehi ??????? (ato?u), via English atoll

Noun

atoll m (definite singular atollen, indefinite plural atoller, definite plural atollene)

1. an atoll

References

• “atoll” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Dhivehi ??????? (ato?u) and Maldivian atolu, via English atoll

Noun

atoll m (definite singular atollen, indefinite plural atollar, definite plural atollane)

1. an atoll

References

• “atoll” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

atoll c

1. atoll

Declension

Anagrams

• ollat

English

Etymology

Coined by Harry Hammond Hess circa 1965 due to their similar appearance to Guyot Hall, the flat-topped geology building at Princeton University, which was in turn named after Swiss-American geologist Arnold Henry Guyot.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??i?j??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?i?jo?/

Noun

guyot (plural guyots)

1. (oceanography) A flat-topped seamount.
   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 158:

     It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot.

Anagrams

• gouty