Sterile Scud Ocean

Latin sterilis, barren / not-fertile — sharing root with Greek steiros (barren). As a color modifier, sterile implies a clear-and-medical-clean-and-stripped quality, the crisp color of operating-theater surgical-environment white-and-stainless-steel surfaces. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to sanitary and hygienic in usage.

Origin obscure, low-fast-driven-cloud. As a color modifier, scud implies a low-fast-driven-cloud-and-storm-front quality, the visual register of North-Sea-and-Cornish-coast-scud hand-low-fast-driven-cloud-and-storm-front North-Sea-and-Cornish-coast-scud-and-Atlantic-front-cloud scud-and-low-fast-driven-cloud surfaces under North-Sea-and-Cornish-coast-scud-and-Atlantic-front-cloud Lizard-Point-and-Outer-Hebrides storm-front-cloud-light. Sits at the modifier-and-weather end of the grid, parallel to gust and mistral in usage.

The body of saltwater that covers seventy percent of Earth's surface — a single connected mass divided by convention into Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. The color refers to the average reflectance of mid-depth temperate ocean: a saturated, slightly green-shifted deep blue with the optical depth of a body of water that absorbs all light below the photic zone. Deeper than mediterranean, cooler than peacock.