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wave base

noun

wave base

noun
1

Geography, Natural sciences The lowest depth at which waves have an effect on the sediment of the sea bed.

  • Beneath the wave base, the floor of the seabed is flat, disturbed only by burrowers.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 253:

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