tideline
tideline noun: a line of floating debris, seaweed etc. that marks the boundary between two surface currents.
Noun
tideline (plural tidelines)
- A line of floating debris, seaweed etc. that marks the boundary between two surface currents.
- And last year, at 5:26 a.m. on August 10, a whole mountainside toppled into the tideline of the shrunken Sawyer Glacier, not far from the Alaskan capital, Juneau. The impact jetted a tsunami a staggering 500 meters up the walls of the fjord.2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic
Forms of tideline
| plural | tidelines |
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Origin of tideline
From tide + line.
Questions about tideline
- What does tideline mean?
- Tideline means a line of floating debris, seaweed etc. that marks the boundary between two surface currents.
- What part of speech is tideline?
- Tideline is a noun.
- What is the plural of tideline?
- The plural of tideline is tidelines.
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