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Coastal vs Littoral - What's the difference?

coastal | littoral |

Littoral is a coordinate term of coastal.



As adjectives the difference between coastal and littoral

is that coastal is relating to the coast; on or near the coast, as a coastal town, a coastal breezelittoral is of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore.

As a noun littoral is

a shore.

coastal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (geography) Relating to the coast; on or near the coast, as a coastal town'', ''a coastal breeze

    • Coordinate terms

    *

    Derived terms

    *

    littoral

    English

    (wikipedia)

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore.

    • Usage notes

    Specifically refers to the water at the shore, rather than the land, particularly in the phrase littoral zone.

    Quotations

    "During his tenure, 'From the Sea' became the Navy-Marine Corps joint strategic concept, wherein the Navy and Marine Corps reoriented doctrinal focus toward littoral warfare." ? Semper Fidelis Memorandum for Retired Marines, Volume 58, No. 2

    Synonyms

    * (relating to the seashore) intertidal

    Coordinate terms

    * coastal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shore.
  • * 1921 , Sir Charles Eliot
    • ...these Chams belonged to the Malay-Polynesian group and their distribution along the littoral suggests that they were invaders from the sea...
  • The zone of a coast between high tide and low tide levels.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=6 citation , passage=The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}

    Synonyms

    * (zone between high- and low-tide) intertidal zone, foreshore

    Related terms

    * lido

    Derived terms

    * circumlittoral * infralittoral * sublittoral * supralittoral

    References

    Anagrams

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