Definition of "naval battle" []

• A pitched battle between naval fleets (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "During the interim alluded to was fought a naval battle which may be said to have revolutionized marine conflicts ever since - the famous fight between the "Merrimac," on the Confederate side, and the "Monitor," on the Federal."
• "This could not be done, he cautioned, until either a decisive naval battle had been won against the High Seas Fleet or the Kiel Canal had been blocked so that the German fleet could not shift rapidly between the North Sea and the Baltic."
• "In a naval battle at Jambelí (27 June, 1865) at which"