tideline

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noun

A line of floating debris, seaweed etc. that marks the boundary between two surface currents.

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Meanings

nountideline (plural tidelines)

plural tidelines

  1. 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

Origin

From tide + line.

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APA

tideline. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tideline

MLA

“tideline.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tideline. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tideline,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tideline.

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