Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Indicating coincidence of high tides or low tides.
- adjective Of or relating to a line that passes through each location on a coastal map where tides occur at the same time of day.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Marking an equality of tides.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.
- adjective (Phys. Geog.) lines on a map passing through places that have high tide at the same time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Describing the
locations (and of related lines on a chart) linking places wheretides occur at the same time of day
Etymologies
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co- + tidal
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Examples
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The diagram I show you is a rough chart of cotidal lines, which I made out of the information contained in _Whitaker's Almanac_.
Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895
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