COASTLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coastline mean? 

• COASTLINE (noun)
  The noun COASTLINE has 1 sense:

1. the outline of a coast

  Familiarity information: COASTLINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COASTLINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The outline of a coast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("coastline" is a kind of...):

lineation; outline (the line that appears to bound an object)

 Context examples 

I had seen a distant headland past the extreme edge of the promontory, and as we looked we could see grow the intervening coastline of what was evidently a deep cove.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Higher ground, where glaciers could stabilize, is much farther from the coastline than previously thought.

(Hidden Greenland canyons mean more sea level rise, NASA)

They are extremely valuable to local people on the coastlines where they gather, which are often in developing countries.

(New study of endangered whale shark youth shows vital habitat similarities, Wikinews)

The impact of the sea level and temperature rise is much greater in Brazil, because the country has a significant portion of its cities located along a long coastline.

(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)

The appearance of unusually warm waters in the eastern Pacific; termed the "Christ child" because of the time of year it effects the South American coastline.

(El Niño, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

A team of Brazilian researchers studied samples of microplastics collected along a 39-kilometre stretch of the Paraná State coastline, in southern Brazil.

(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)

Dispersants contain detergents, not unlike those people use to wash dishes, which help break oil into small droplets that are diluted in the ocean or are eaten by microbes before the oil can be swept to sensitive coastlines.

(Sunlight reduces effectiveness of dispersants used to clean up oil spills, National Science Foundation)

Given the extent of nitrogen loading along our coastlines, it is imperative that we better understand the resilience of salt marsh systems to nitrate, especially if we hope to rely on salt marshes and other blue carbon systems for long-term carbon storage, the authors write.

(Salt marshes' capacity to store carbon may be threatened by nitrogen pollution, National Science Foundation)

Morlighem's new topography shows southern Greenland's ragged, crumbling coastline is scored by more than 100 canyons beneath glaciers that empty into the ocean.

(Hidden Greenland canyons mean more sea level rise, NASA)

However, the wet and fractured ice along the southern coastline cluttered the radar soundings so that large swaths of the bed remained invisible.

(Hidden Greenland canyons mean more sea level rise, NASA)