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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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Longshore trough
Engineering; Coastal engineering
An elongate depression or series of depressions extending along the lower beach or in the offshore zone inside the breakers.
Holocene
Engineering; Coastal engineering
An epoch of the quaternary period, from the end of the pleistocene, about 8,000 years ago, to the present time. Syn: Recent.
Back barrier
Engineering; Coastal engineering
Pertaining to the lagoon-marsh-tidal creek complex in the lee of a coastal barrier island, barrier spit, or baymouth barrier.
Prototype
Engineering; Coastal engineering
In laboratory usage, the full-scale structure, concept, or phenomenon used as a basis for constructing a scale model or copy.
Chop
Engineering; Coastal engineering
The short-crested waves that may spring up quickly in a moderate breeze, and which break easily at the crest. Also wind chop.
Photogrammetry
Engineering; Coastal engineering
The science of deducing the physical dimensions of objects from measurements on images (usually photographs) of the objects.
Coast line
Engineering; Coastal engineering
The term used in the Submerged Lands Act to describe the low-water line and closing lines across the mouths of inland water bodies.
