tidal flow

1. 1.

   the water current caused by the tides

   Synonymstidal current

   Broadercurrent

   Narrowertidal bore

   Part oftide

Questions about tidal flow

What does tidal flow mean?

tidal flow means "the water current caused by the tides".

What is another word for tidal flow?

Close synonyms include tidal current. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tidal flow a common word?

tidal flow 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.