vide. 1. (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text, another book, etc) refer to, see (often in the phrases vide ante (see before), vide infra (see below), vide post (see after), vide supra (see above), vide ut supra (see as above), etc).Abbreviation: v or Abbreviation vid.[C16: from Latin].ide. A Latin word meaning see, used to refer a reader to another place in a text or to another text.
About 66% or 2/3 of the Earth is covered by water. The amount of Earth covered by water is exactly 71.13%. 70.78% of the Earth is covered in water. Land covers 29.22 percent of the Earth's surface. This is about 57.5 million square miles (149 x 106 square kilometers). Water covers the other 70.78 percent of the Earth's surface. This is about 139.4 million square miles (361 x 106 square kilometers).
In simplest terms, water makes up about 71% of the Earthâs surface, while the other 29% consists of continents and islands. To break the numbers down, 96.5% of all the Earthâs water is contained within the oceans as salt water, while the remaining 3.5% is freshwater lakes and frozen water locked up in glaciers and the polar ice caps. Of that fresh water, almost all of it takes the form of ice: 69% of it, to be exact. If you could melt all that ice, and the Earthâs surface was perfectly smooth, the sea levels would rise to an altitude of 2.7 km. Illustration showing all of Earthâs water, liquid fresh water, and water in lakes and rivers.