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Coastal engineering
A branch of civil engineering that applies engineering principles specifically to projects within the coastal zone including areas nearshore, estuary, marine, and shoreline.
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High water line
Engineering; Coastal engineering
In strictness, the intersection of the plane of mean high water with the shore. The shoreline delineated on the nautical charts of the National Ocean Service is an approximation of the high water ...
Refraction of water waves
Engineering; Coastal engineering
(1) The process by which the direction of a wave moving in shallow water at an angle to the contours is changed: the part of the wave advancing in shallower water moves more slowly than that part ...
Tide station
Engineering; Coastal engineering
A place at which tide observations are being taken. It is called a primary tide station when continuous observations are to be taken over a number of years to obtain basic tidal data for the ...
Coral
Engineering; Coastal engineering
(1) (Biology) Marine coelenterates (Madreporaria), solitary or colonial, which form a hard external covering of calcium compounds or other materials. The corals which form large reefs are limited to ...
Wash load
Engineering; Coastal engineering
Part of the suspended load with particle sizes smaller than found in the bed; it is in near-permanent suspension and transported without deposition; the amount of wash load transported through a ...
Mean high water (MHW)
Engineering; Coastal engineering
The average height of the high waters over a 19-year period. For shorter periods of observations, corrections are applied to eliminate known variations and reduce the results to the equivalent of a ...
Clapotis
Engineering; Coastal engineering
The French equivalent for a type of standing wave. In American usage it is usually associated with the standing wave phenomenon caused by the reflection of a nonbreaking wave train from a structure ...
