Seawall: massive structure built along the shore to prevent erosion and damage by wave action.
Piers, jetties and seawalls with a protective layer of marine growth absorb wave action better.
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The electricity generators operate like wind turbines but with blades driven by tidal wave action.
Berm crest: ridge of sand or gravel deposited by wave action on the shore just above the normal high water mark.
Sand bar: accretionary deposit of sand formed across a river mouth or bay by wave action and joined to the shore at both ends.
Spit: accretionary deposit of sand or stones located where a shoreline changes direction, formed by wave action and joined to the shore at one end only.
That is major nearby support for February gold futures and a break under that floor would unleash a fresh selling wave of action.
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The second wave of strike action is set to last eight consecutive days.
Instead, Ms Morris and her successor, Charles Clarke, toughened the rules governing appeal panels after a wave of industrial action ballots by teachers.
The wave of municipal legal action against the gun industry gathered pace when Los Angeles, San Francisco and several other Californian cities announced that they intended to file suits.
The Vietnamese legal indictment cites a May 2010 Chinese diplomatic request for joint action to stop short-wave transmissions into China by the accused pair, who were detained two weeks after the date of the memo.
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After Markel's findings were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Barry wrote a letter in response, saying it wasn't swift action but rather an earlier wave of mild flu, acting like a vaccination, that was probably responsible for New York's relatively low caseload.
Australia has been gripped by a summer heat wave with near-record temperatures and the action of court is promising to be just as hot.
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Just as last year's anti-affirmative-action initiative in California set off a wave of similar campaigns across the country, so too Californian anti-unionism has national echoes.
However, while Mr Di Paola said "there was always an opportunity for further talks", he stressed that the action on Wednesday was the "first wave" and more mini-stoppages could follow.
This sense of rejection strengthened the wave of nationalism that swept the extreme-right National Action Party, led by Devlet Bahceli, into a new coalition government after the general election in April.
The real action is brewing in the Gulf of Mexico, where a tropical wave has been getting itself together over the last day and is likely to congeal into Tropical Storm Lee.
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"This is the first time we see a binary black hole in action, the smoking gun for something that will become a major gravitational wave burst in the future, " says Hasinger.
Investors are also weighing the prospects for an interest-rate cut or other action by European Central Bank officials scheduled to meet Thursday, following another wave of disappointing economic data from the euro zone in recent days.
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