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The United States Army Corps of Engineers is a federal agency with a mission to provide vital public engineering services in peace and war to strengthen the nation's security, energize the economy, and reduce risks from disasters. It is also a major U.S. Army organization employing some 38,000 ...
The term used in the Submerged Lands Act to describe the low-water line and closing lines across the mouths of inland water bodies.
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The parts of a waterway that are open and unobstructed for navigation. The main traveled part of a waterway; a marine thoroughfare.
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The mean surface level as determined by averaging the heights of the water at equal intervals of time, usually at hourly intervals.
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That part of an incident wave that is returned seaward when a wave impinges on a steep beach, barrier, or other reflecting surface.
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In hydraulics, the line joining the deepest points of an inlet or stream channel. Often serving as the boundary between two states.
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Any current in the littoral zone caused primarily by wave action; e.g., longshore current, rip current.
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In surface wave motion, a point in the period to which the wave motion has advanced with respect to a given initial reference point.
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Distance from the eye of a hurricane, where surface and wind velocities are zero, to the place where surface windspeeds are maximum.
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The process of producing, from a tilted or oblique photograph, a photograph from which displacement caused by tilt has been removed.
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The zone of wave action on the beach, which moves as water levels vary, extending from the limit of run-down to the limit of run-up.
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