mean low tide
The average of all low tides — both low and lower low — over a fixed period.
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mean lower low tide
The average of lower low tides over a fixed period.
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tide
tide. The rising and falling of seawater that is produced by the attraction of the sun and moon, uninfluenced by special winds, seasons, or other circumstances that create meteorological and atmospheric meteorological tides; the ebb and flow of the sea. • Tides are used to measure a shore’s upland boundary. mean high tide. The average
maritime
maritime (mar-i-tIm), adj. 1. Connected with or situated near the sea. 2. Of or relating to sea navigation or commerce. “The word ‘maritime’ has in the Constitution its appropriate meaning, i.e., relating to the sea, and ‘sea’ is a word of wide extension and application …. Its classical and scriptural equivalents are applied to all
watermark
watermark. 1. A mark indicating the highest or lowest point to which water rises or falls. high-water mark. 1. The shoreline of a sea reached by the water at high tide. • The high-water mark is usu. computed as a mean or average high tide and not as the extreme height of the water. 2.