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Tidology

Tid-ol′o-gy

,
Noun.
[
Tide
+
-logy
.]
A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides.
J. S. Mill.

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tidology

tidology

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Noun

tidology (uncountable)

  1. The science of tides.
    • 2009, Michael S. Reidy, Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy, page 269:
      He referred mainly to his tidology when he applied for the Lowndean professorship of astronomy, which had become vacant that fall.

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