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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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Caustic
Engineering; Coastal engineering
In refraction of waves, the name given to the curve to which adjacent orthogonals of waves refracted by a bottom whose contour lines are curved, are tangents. The occurrence of a caustic always marks ...
Tidal stand
Engineering; Coastal engineering
An interval at high or low water when there is no observable change in the height of the tide. The water level is stationary at high and low water for only an instant, but the change in level near ...
Turbidity
Engineering; Coastal engineering
(1) A condition of a liquid due to fine visible material in suspension, which may not be of sufficient size to be seen as individual particles by the naked eye but which prevents the passage of light ...
Sand
Engineering; Coastal engineering
Sediment particles, often largely composed of quartz, with a diameter of between 0.062 mm and 2 mm, generally classified as fine, medium, coarse or very coarse. Beach sand may sometimes be composed ...
Sand waves
Engineering; Coastal engineering
(1) Longshore sand waves are large-scale features that maintain form while migrating along the shore with speeds on the order of kilometres per year. (2) Large-scale asymmetrical bedforms in sandy ...
Surf zone
Engineering; Coastal engineering
The zone of wave action extending from the water line (which varies with tide, surge, set-up, etc.) out to the most seaward point of the zone (breaker zone) at which waves approaching the coastline ...
Levee
Engineering; Coastal engineering
(1) A ridge or embankment of sand and silt, built up by a stream on its flood plain along both banks of its channel. (2) A large dike or artificial embankment, often having an access road along the ...
