transatlantic

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Transatlantic means crossing or on the other side of the Atlantic. A transatlantic flight, transatlantic relations, a transatlantic accent.

In politics it names the relationship between Europe and North America and appears in every communique about it. A transatlantic accent is one that belongs to neither side and was taught to actors in the 1930s.

Definitions of transatlantic

1adjectivetransatlanticCrossing or on the other side of the Atlantic.C1
“The first transatlantic telephone cable was laid in 1956.”

transatlantic is a quality.

Where it comes from

From trans- + Atlantic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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transatlantic in the wild

TAT-1 (Transatlantic No. 1) was the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system.
TAT-1
TAT-8 was the 8th transatlantic communications cable and first transatlantic fiber-optic cable, carrying 280 Mbit/s between the United States, United Kingdom and France.
TAT-8
TAT-9 was the first fiber optic system to operate at 565 Mbit/s, twice the speed of the first transatlantic fiber optic system, TAT-8.
TAT-9
A transatlantic telecommunications cable is a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other.
Transatlantic communications cable
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas.
Atlantic slave trade

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