transpacific

Spanning the Pacific

Transpacific means crossing or spanning the Pacific Ocean: a transpacific flight, transpacific trade routes, transpacific cables.

The term appears frequently in discussions of commerce and travel between Asia and the Americas: Transpacific shipping delays disrupted supply chains.

aviation

flight

Aerial journey by aircraft

  • airlinerLarge commercial passenger plane
  • jetlinerLarge commercial passenger aircraft
  • pilotOne who steers aircraft

cockpit · turbulence · jetlag · inflight · takeoff · landing · layover · airspace · long-haul · nonstop

shipping

cargo

Transported goods

port · harbor · dock · logistics · import · export · customs · tariff · manifest · stevedore

trade

APEC

Pacific economic cooperation forum

export · import · supply-chain · quota · goods · commodities

cable

fiber-optic

Light-carrying cable technology

internet · connectivity · latency · network · telegraph

migration

diaspora

Scattered population sharing origins

remittance · visa · resettlement · asylum · naturalization · cross-cultural · timezones · adjustment

Categories
Opposites
ocean crossed

transpacifictransatlantic

Spanning the ocean between continents

trans-Atlantic · Atlantic · Mediterranean · Caribbean

geographic scope

transpacificdomestic

Of the home

local · regional · transcontinental · overland · inland

Family

pacify, pacifier, pacifist, pacific, Pacific, pacifism, Pacific Ocean, pacification, pacifistic

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G