direct tide

1. 1.

   the occurrence of high tide on one side of the earth coinciding with high tide on the opposite side

   Broaderhigh tide

Questions about direct tide

What does direct tide mean?

direct tide means "the occurrence of high tide on one side of the earth coinciding with high tide on the opposite side".

Is direct tide a common word?

direct tide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.