tideline en · NOUN
Etymology
From tide + line.
Meanings
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A line of floating debris, seaweed etc. that marks the boundary between two surface currents.
And last year, at 5:26 a.m. on August 10, a whole mountainside toppled into the tideline of the shrunken Sawyer Glacier, not far from the Alaskan capital, Juneau. The impact jetted a tsunami a staggering 500 meters up the walls of the fjord.
2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tidelines | Number=Plur | lexicographic |