Difference between shoreline and hydrography
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noun
- a boundary line between land and water
Examples
Beautiful, green, the remoteness of Exmoor counterpointed by the glorious surf of the Atlantic beaches, coast roads with views of the craggy shoreline.
It looks like a preying mantis, has a huge hook to snare its prey and is coming to a rocky shoreline near you.
It lives subtidally (from the high water mark, which is rarely inundated, to shoreline areas that are permanently submerged), or occasionally intertidally (the area that is exposed to the air at low tide and underwater at high tide).
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noun
- the science of the measurement and description and mapping of the surface waters of the earth with special reference to navigation
Examples
That opened a period of intense growth in scientific knowledge in the area of steamship mechanics, shipbuilding, hydrography and shipboard artillery.
He said: ‘I am very conscious of the excellent leadership of the nation's hydrography by my predecessors.’
Objective:To investigate the value of thick slab single shot projection in MR hydrography.
