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UK
/pɐsˈɪfɪk/
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[ US /pəˈsɪfɪk/ ]
[ US /pəˈsɪfɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature
the pacific temper seeks to settle disputes on grounds of justice rather than by force
in a peaceable and orderly manner
a quiet and peaceable person -
promoting peace
the result of this pacific policy was that no troops were called up
How To Use pacific In A Sentence
- The Marabi mangrove forests are halophyte forests distributed along the Ecuadorian Coast and located at the mouths of river systems converging on the Pacific Coast of South America. Manabí mangroves
- An aortogram shows opacification of pulmonary arteries, veins and right atrium as well as the aorta.
- Its name commemorates Voli Voli Cave (one of the discovery sites) and Atholl Anderson, well known for his many contributions to the prehistory and palaeoecology of south-west Pacific islands. The small, recently extinct, island-dwelling crocodilians of the south Pacific
- Howard's belated triumphalism in the South Pacific may be no more successful than Mussolini's equally tardy attempts at empire building in North Africa.
- In Admiral Spruance, it had found one of the Pacific War's most effective tactical naval commanders.
- The capital of the overseas territory of French Polynesia, a port on the northwest coast of Tahiti in the Society Islands of the southern Pacific Ocean.
- In November 1875, Sir Frederick Evans, newly appointed hydrographer of the British Navy, ordered 123 doubtful islands banished from Admiralty Chart 2683 of the Pacific Ocean. A Furnace Afloat
- However, the name is sometimes used and has recently been applied to the reddish eggs of the chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta, of the N. Pacific and Arctic.
- From the cooler water morwong, to a splendid angelfish and the brightly speckled hawkfish, this oceanic haven in the middle of a vast sea vibrates to the rhythm of the Pacific's currents.
- Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, has been accompanied by results of a most interesting and impressive nature, and has created new conditions, not in the routes of commerce only, but in political geography, which powerfully affect our relations toward and necessarily increase our interests in any transisthmian route which may be opened and employed for the ends of peace and traffic, or, in other contingencies, for uses inimical to both. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)