单词 | at spring |
释义 | > as lemmasat spring c. at spring: at a spring tide, when the water level at high tide is highest (opposed to at neap). ΚΠ 1850 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 140 227 Half the difference of the height at spring and neaps. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 353 The difference between the intervals is greater at spring than at neap. 1891 Proc. Royal Soc. 1890–91 49 130 The tidal information supplied by the Admiralty for such places consists of rough means of the rise and interval at spring and neap, modified by the important warning that the tide is affected by diurnal inequality. 2012 D. Fan in R. A. Davis & R. W. Dalrymple Princ. Tidal Sedimentol. 204/2 The semidiurnal tidal range varies from 2.3 m at neap to 5.5 m at spring. < as lemmas |
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