Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Indicating coincidence of high tides or low tides.
  • adjective Of or relating to a line that passes through each location on a coastal map where tides occur at the same time of day.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Marking an equality of tides.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.
  • adjective (Phys. Geog.) lines on a map passing through places that have high tide at the same time.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Describing the locations (and of related lines on a chart) linking places where tides occur at the same time of day

Etymologies

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co- +‎ tidal

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Examples

  • The diagram I show you is a rough chart of cotidal lines, which I made out of the information contained in _Whitaker's Almanac_.

    Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

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