underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc
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El Nino
(oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time
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a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Economics, Rivers, lakes and water, Oceans and coasts, International economics.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Rivers, lakes and water.(Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Economics, Rivers, lakes and water, Oceans and coasts, International economics.a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Economics, Rivers, lakes and water, Oceans and coasts, International economics.a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Economics, Rivers, lakes and water, Oceans and coasts, International economics.a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Economics, Rivers, lakes and water, Oceans and coasts, International economics.a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Economics, Rivers, lakes and water, Oceans and coasts, International economics.a more intense El Nino that occurs every few years when the welling up of cold nutrient-rich water does not occur; kills plankton and…
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Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Physical geography, Environmental ecology.woodlands in full leaf; "the greenwood was Robin Hood's home"
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Physical geography, Environmental ecology.the science of the measurement and description and mapping of the surface waters of the earth with special reference to navigation
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Physical geography, Environmental ecology, Oceans and coasts.a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
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Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Physical geography, Environmental ecology, Oceans and coasts.the branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Environmental science, Geography, Physical geography, Environmental ecology, Oceans and coasts.the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore
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The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oceanography, warm, ocean, current, flows.The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the un…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oceanography, warm, ocean, current, flows.Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oceanography, warm, ocean, current, flows.a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oceanography, warm, ocean, current, flows.Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oceanography, warm, ocean, current, flows.One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oceanography, warm, ocean, current, flows.Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oceanography, warm, ocean, current, flows.One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oceanography, warm, ocean, current, flows.The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oceanography, warm, ocean, current, flows.an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oceanography, warm, ocean, current, flows.an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oceanography, warm, ocean, current, flows.an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
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