The aphotic, or “midnight,” zone exists in depths below 1,000 meters. Sunlight does not penetrate to these depths and the zone is bathed in darkness.
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Aphotic
//eɪˈfəʊtɪk//
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26 translations across 25 languages.
Basque
1 entries- afotiko adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Bulgarian
1 entries- афотична adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Catalan
1 entries- afòtica adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 無光 /无光 adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Danish
1 entries- afotiske adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Dutch
1 entries- afotisch adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Estonian
1 entries- afootne adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Finnish
1 entries- afoottinen adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
French
1 entries- aphotique adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
German
1 entries- aphotische adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Italian
1 entries- afotico adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Japanese
1 entries- 無光 adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Kazakh
1 entries- афотикалық adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Korean
1 entries- 무광 adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Lithuanian
1 entries- afotinė adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- afotisk adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- afotisk adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Persian
1 entries- بینور adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Polish
1 entries- afotyczny adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Portuguese
1 entries- afótico adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Russian
1 entries- афотический adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- afotička adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Spanish
1 entries- afótica adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Turkish
2 entries- afotik adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
- ışıksız adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
Ukrainian
1 entries- афоти́чна adj (having no light, especially no sunlight)
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As experiment has shown that light waves capable of effecting chemical changes do not penetrate the water deeper than 400 meters and as the other conditions of assimilation are met above this line, it is proposed to distinguish a diaphanic region including the land and the water to a depth of 400 m. and inhabited by assimilating organisms and an aphotic region including the ocean and lakes below the assimilation-line and the dark caves of the crust, where plant life is impossible.
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We have bacteria classified as aërobic and anaërobic, according as they thrive with or without access of air. We need to classify bacteria as photic and aphotic.
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Photographically the light of the sun is detectable in exceptionally clear-water tropical seas to a depth of about 2,000 feet, but Johnstone places the average depth for all waters at 650 feet, beyond which there is more or less of total darkness, the aphotic realm.
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