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Embayment
//ɪmˈbeɪmənt// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A bay. (the water)
"The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds."
- 2 an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf wordnet
- 3 The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)
- 4 A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
- 5 The process by which a bay is formed.
Etymology
From em- + bay + -ment.
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