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AMOC (uncountable)

1. (oceanography) Initialism of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
   • 2021 March 2, Moises Velasquez-Manoff; Jeremy White, “In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     The AMOC is thus a poster child for the idea of climatic “tipping points”—of hard-to-predict thresholds in Earth’s climate system that, once crossed, have rapid, cascading effects far beyond the corner of the globe where they occur.