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Definition of "lookdown" [look•down]

  • An iridescent, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer) of Atlantic waters, having a compressed body and a steep frontal profile. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "lookdown" in a sentence
  • "Surveys by their five "lookdown" radars, besides profiling the underlying landscape, mapped ice layers between coring locations, without chemical detail but showing how layer thickness _ and therefore accumulations _ varied along the traverse route."
  • "Surveys by their five "lookdown" radars, besides profiling the underlying landscape, mapped ice layers between coring locations, without chemical detail but showing how layer thickness - and therefore accumulations - varied along the traverse route."
  • "Tuesday, January 12, 2010 from barrington we made our way through more national parks, taking in some great scenery and hikes as we headed for the blue mountains, which would be our last wilderness stop before hitting sydney!! here we stayed at a campsite called perry's lookdown which is the start point for a 2. 5km hike (one way) into an adjoining valley. i know 2.5 km sounds like a stroll in the park but this was a hard ass Lilianfels Avenue, Echo Point Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia Apex "