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wavebase

wavebase is the alternative form of wave base.

Meaning of wave base

Noun

wave base (plural wave bases)

  1. The lowest depth at which waves have an effect on the sediment of the sea bed.
    • Beneath the wave base, the floor of the seabed is flat, disturbed only by burrowers.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 253

Forms of wavebase

pluralwavebases

Questions about wavebase

What is wavebase the alternative form of?
Wavebase is the alternative form of wave base.

Words near wavebase in the dictionary

  1. wave-riders
  2. wave-runner
  3. waveable
  4. waveband
  5. wavebands
  6. wavebase
  7. waveblock
  8. waveblocks
  9. wavebreak
  10. wavebreaking
  11. wavebreaks

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