Sterile Boom 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.

Dutch boom, tree / spar. As a color modifier, boom implies a horizontal-spar-attached-to-mast quality, the visual register of Tall-Ship-and-yacht-boom hand-cut horizontal-spar-attached-to-mast-foot boom-and-mainsail tall-ship-and-yacht maritime-rigging surfaces under tall-ship-and-yacht boom-and-mainsail maritime light. Sits at the modifier-and-nautical end of the grid, parallel to spar and mast 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.