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tidally

tidally

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Happening because the tides rise and fall
  • adverb
  • /ˈtaɪdəli/
: marealmente
  • How many of the moons of our gas giants are tidally locked and/or in orbits that frequently get eclipsed by the planet?
  • tidally locked
  • tidally locked
  • tidally locked planet

So you might have life as we know it on the moons of planets that have tidally heated those moons.

Examples

  • Several moons in our solar system are tidally locked, which causes them to rotate at the same rate they orbit their planets.

  • Imagine if, like most satellites in our system, the moon is tidally locked to the planet.

    Blog text (17)

  • The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth and thus the far side is always facing away from Earth and so it Shields it from the radio noise we emit.

  • So you might have life as we know it on the moons of planets that have tidally heated those moons.

    WIRED

  • In the majority of these binaries, the stars are also tidally locked to each other, much as the Moon in the Earth-Moon system, so that the sides of the stars facing each other do not change.

    Academic text (2000)

  • The Far Seer trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer takes place on the tidally locked moon of a gas giant, too.

    Blog text (17)

  • The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, meaning it always shows the same face to our planet.

  • Because the planet is tidally locked to its star, one side experiences constant daylight while the other remains in perpetual darkness.

Surface Forms

tidally positive

Morphology

tidally = tidal (transparent) = tidal + ly

The suffix '-ly' is a standard transformation to form an adverb from an adjective.

Etymology

Tidally comes from the simple word tide, which once meant 'time' and later became the name for the sea's regular rise and fall, so you can imagine the sea having its own 'time' to come in and out. So, if something happens tidally, it happens with the sea's regular movement and is caused by the tides.