seiche
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- noun
- /seɪʃ/
- Specialized
- seiche waves
Examples
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With school discipline and teen crime making popular and safe issues for candidates from both major parties in the 1996 elections, the latest round of restrictions may have engendered an unprecedented seiche.
Academic text (1997) -
Seiching occurred in a number of the inlets and harbors investigated, superimposed on the surge height, with a maximum seiche height of 15 centimeters and periods between two and fifteen minutes.
Academic text (2009) -
A seiche can occur in a bay when strong winds push the water back and forth.
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The researchers studied the seiche patterns in the lake following the recent storm.
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After the earthquake, the seiche made the water level rise and fall dramatically in the nearby reservoir.
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word seiche comes from French where it meant 'sway' or 'rock'. It now names the slow back-and-forth wave that makes water in a lake or bay slosh like water in a bowl after a strong wind or earthquake.