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Definition of Cotidal
1. a. Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.
Definition of Cotidal
1. Adjective. Describing the locations (and of related lines on a chart) linking places where tides occur at the same time of day ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cotidal
1. indicating coincidence of the tides [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotidal
Literary usage of Cotidal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1857)
"AT successive meetings of the American Association I have presented approximate
cotidal lines for the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of ..."
2. A Treatise on Astronomy by Elias Loomis (1893)
"The accompanying map, Plate I., shows the cotidal lines for nearly every ocean,
drawn at intervals of 3 hours, and expressed in Greenwich time. ..."
3. The Tides and Kindred Phenomena in the Solar System: The Substance of by George Howard Darwin (1898)
"... X TIDES IN LAKES cotidal CHART IF the conditions of the tidal problem are to
agree with reality, an ocean must be considered which is interrupted by ..."
4. An Introduction to Physical Geography by Grove Karl Gilbert, Albert Perry Brigham (1902)
"For the guidance of shipmasters, maps are made showing by "cotidal" lines (Fig.
200) the places which are reached by the tides at the same time. ..."
5. A Treatise on Astronomy for the Use of Colleges and Schools by Hugh Godfray (1886)
"cotidal-lines are curve lines which connect all those places which have high
water at the same absolute instant of time; that is, all those places through ..."
6. Harbours and Docks: Their Physical Features, History, Construction by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1885)
"cotidal Lines. Currents: Tidal Currents. Bore up Rivers. Direction of Tidal Currents.
Transport and Deposit of Sediment. Ocean Currents. Wind Currents. ..."
7. Harbours and Docks: Their Physical Features, History, Construction by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1885)
"cotidal Lines. Currents: Tidal Currents. Bore up Rivers. Direction of Tidal Currents.
Transport and Deposit of Sediment. Ocean Currents. Wind Currents. ..."
8. Physical Geography, Or The Terraqueous Globe and Its Phenomena by William Desborough Cooley (1876)
"Dr. Whewell's cotidal Lines.—Tides round the British Islands. DISTURBANCES such
as cause vibration in solids produce in fluids undulation, ..."
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