transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈō-shən ]
noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English occean, from Anglo-French, from Latin oceanus, from Greek Õkeanos, a river thought of as encircling the earth, ocean
Date: 14th century
1.
a. : the whole body of salt water that covers nearly three fourths of the surface of the earth
b. : any of the large bodies of water (as the Atlantic Ocean) into which the great ocean is divided
2. : a very large or unlimited space or quantity