Category
page 1Tide tables
tide table
used for tidal prediction and show the daily times and heights of high water and low water, usually for a particular location
chart datum
level of water that charted depths displayed on a nautical chart are measured from
tide-predicting machine
mechanical analog computer, constructed and set up to predict the ebb and flow of sea tides and the irregular variations in their heights – which change in mixtures of rhythms, that never (in the aggregate) repeat themselves exactly