TIDAL CURRENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tidal current mean? 

• TIDAL CURRENT (noun)
  The noun TIDAL CURRENT has 1 sense:

1. the water current caused by the tides

  Familiarity information: TIDAL CURRENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIDAL CURRENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The water current caused by the tides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

tidal current; tidal flow

Hypernyms ("tidal current" is a kind of...):

current; stream (a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tidal current"):

aegir; bore; eager; eagre; tidal bore (a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary))

Holonyms ("tidal current" is a part of...):

tide (the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon)