Argo
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- proper noun
- Specialized
- But if you think ARGO is BS, then the earlier records are absurd.
- Argo floats
Examples
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And ocean heat content is not rising, as the ARGO buoy network shows.
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Tony Mendez's Intelligence Star was returned to him in 1997, when the Argo operation was declassified by President Clinton.
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Oceanographers are already using data from the more than 3,900 floats in the international Argo array.
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His team is drafting a proposal to present to the international Argo steering committee at a meeting that begins on March 22.
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Besides float deployment, Argo has worked hard to develop two separate data streams: real-time and delayed mode.
Compounds
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A very large old group of stars that appears as four parts named Carina, Puppis, Vela and Pyxis
- Specialized
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A sea animal like an octopus whose female makes a thin spiral shell
Surface Forms
Etymology
Argo the ocean program is named after the same Greek ship Argo, because its floats 'sail' the world's oceans collecting information like a modern crew. A helpful image is to think of many small 'ships' traveling the seas to measure temperature and currents, which is exactly what the program does.