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1. reefs

   A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral or similar relatively stable material, lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic processes—deposition of sand, wave erosion planing down rock outcrops, etc.—but there are also reefs such as the coral reefs of tropical waters formed by biotic processes dominated by corals and coralline algae, and artificial reefs such as shipwrecks and other anthropogenic underwater structures may occur intentionally or as the result of an accident, and sometimes have a designed role in enhancing the physical complexity of featureless sand bottoms, to attract a more diverse assemblage of organisms. Reefs are often quite near to the surface, but not all definitions require this.Earth's largest coral reef system is the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, at a length of over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 miles).

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of reefs in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of reefs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of reefs in a Sentence

1. The UN:

   A massive spill from the Safer would destroy pristine reefs, coastal mangroves and other sea life across the Red Sea, expose millions of people to highly polluted air, and cut off food, fuel and other life-saving supplies to Yemen, where 17 million people already need food aid.

2. Feng Wenhai:

   The city will also push forward the planning and construction of a maritime medical rescue center. Submarine optical cables will be laid and put into use this year, and Wi-Fi will cover all inhabited islands and reefs.

3. John Burt:

   Coral reefs are home to a quarter of all marine species and support fisheries by providing foraging habitats for adult fish and nursery habitats for juveniles, so they're really important biologically and economically.

4. Police Inspector Danny Mulligan:

   Approximately two kilometers off the mariner here behind me in Mindarie, between the one mile and three mile reefs, a man and woman were diving when the woman was taken by, or appears to have been taken, by a shark.

5. Lynn Rothschild:

   Periodically, UAVs get lost -- for example on coral reefs or in other sensitive habitats, as I started to hear about this, I thought,' Well, wouldn't it be useful if the UAV was biodegradable, so if it crashed somewhere that was sensitive, it wouldn't matter if it dissolved.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefs