Backwash

Backwash

The return water flow of swash. This sheet of water flows back to ocean because of gravity.

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backwash

Military; General military

An even layer of water that moves along the sea floor from the beach through the surf zone and caused by the pile-up of water on the beach from incoming breakers.

backwash

Sports; Surfing

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backwash

Geography; Physical geography

used in both physical and human geography. In physical geography, the movement of water down a beach to the sea after having run up the beach in the swash. In human geography, ...

backwash

Weather; Meteorology

The return flow of water down the beach as a result of wave action; the opposite of swash.

backwash

Engineering; Coastal engineering

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backwash

Earth science; Geology

(1) physical geography - The flow of sea water back down a beach after the swash. (2) human geography - Movement of resources from the periphery of an urban area to the core, ...

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A layer of minerals laid down by flowing water. People who pan for gold search through placers.

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An underwater ridge of rock that rises up to or near the surface. Reefs are important ecosystems that provide home for sea life.

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shear instability

Earth science; Oceanography

An instability of an unbounded parallel shear flow to the growth and nonlinear development of waves with phase speed in the along flow direction approximately equal to the speed ...

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