Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine, theory, or science of tides.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
science oftides .
Etymologies
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tide + -ology
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Examples
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Nevertheless, not only is it certain that these variations depend on causes, and follow their causes by laws of unerring uniformity; not only, therefore, is tidology a science, like meteorology, but it is, what hitherto at least meteorology is not, a science largely available in practice.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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