Neap tide

Neap tide

A tide of decreased amplitude, occurring semimonthly one or two days after quadrature .

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neap tide

Weather; Meteorology

A tide of decreased amplitude, occurring semimonthly one or two days after quadrature. Compare spring tide, tropic tide, equatorial tide.

neap tide

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A tide that occurs when the difference between high and low tide is least; the lowest level of high tide. Neap tide comes twice a month, in the first and third quarters of the ...

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Biology; Marine biology

Tides occurring when the vertical range is minimal.

neap tide

Earth science; Physical oceanography

The tides produced when the gravitational pull of the Sun is in quadrature, i.e. at right angles to, with that of the Moon. These occur twice a month at about the times of the ...

neap tide

Astronomy; Moon

When the Moon is at its first quarter or last quarter, its gravitationsl forces are partially cancelled out by the Sun. This leads to a lower high tide than normal.

neap tide

Geography; Physical geography

A low tidal range caused when the angle of a line drawn from the sun to the earth and then to the moon is 90- in this twice-monthly situation the gravitational pulls of sun and ...

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