Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- As a tide; in a manner dependent on or affected by the tide.
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- adverb In a
tidal manner. - adverb Using the
tides .
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Examples
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In environments such as tidally influenced areas, water currents often go in different directions, resulting in unusual ripple patterns hard to explain tidally influenced areas in a global flood.
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In environments such as tidally influenced areas, water currents often go in different directions, resulting in unusual ripple patterns hard to explain tidally influenced areas in a global flood.
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Planets in its habitable zone are so close to it that they are tidally locked, always presenting the same face to their star.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Once Again With Feeling: The Planets of Gliese 581 Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010
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Apart from the bit about a non-rotating Earth and Moon being tidally locked to each other (seriously breaking several major laws of physics) Aldiss's vision of a planetary jungle-gone-mad is one of the most inventive I have ever come across.
INTERVIEW: Michael Hanlon, Author of Eternity, Our Next Billion Years 2009
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Planets in its habitable zone are so close to it that they are tidally locked, always presenting the same face to their star.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Once Again With Feeling: The Planets of Gliese 581 Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010
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The dog can keep trying to twist away from you, just as the moon kept spinning, but eventually Earth's gravity pulled the bulge to a halt and the satellite became tidally locked.
When the moon hits your eye, it's always the same old scene 2010
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Given enough time, Earth itself could become tidally locked to the sun.
When the moon hits your eye, it's always the same old scene 2010
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In the argot of planetary scientists, the moon is "tidally locked" to Earth.
When the moon hits your eye, it's always the same old scene 2010
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Once upon a time, before our rocky, roundish moon became tidally locked, tidal bulges also swept continually across its surface, tracking the shifting position and pull of Earth.
When the moon hits your eye, it's always the same old scene 2010
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Such a tidy revolution-to-rotation ratio, which physicists call orbital resonance, is really just a variation on the 1: 1 ratio that defines a tidally locked body.
When the moon hits your eye, it's always the same old scene 2010
mollusque commented on the word tidally
"Let's clean up the beach", said Tom tidally.
November 30, 2008