Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Indicating coincidence of high tides or low tides.
- adj. Of or relating to a line that passes through each location on a coastal map where tides occur at the same time of day.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Marking an equality of tides.
Wiktionary
- adj. Describing the locations (and of related lines on a chart) linking places where tides occur at the same time of day
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.
Etymologies
- co- + tidal (Wiktionary)
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_.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cotidal’.
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Times and Tides
Words pertaining to the oceans' tides; words describing seasons or portions of time that contain the searchable string *tide.
*tide, no-tide, tidewater, amphidromic, tide, tidal, cotidal, noontide, Yuletide, eventide, Whitsuntide, Passiontide and 99 more...
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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