Adjective : a tidal current. ,a tidal steamer. From Dictionary.com.
The plaent is likely tidally locked with the star. From Wordnik.com. [Astronomers Find Super-Earth With An Atmosphere | Universe Today] Reference
Criminy, what would life be like on a tidally-locked ocean world?. From Wordnik.com. [Potentially Habitable Planet Found - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Since this is a red dwarf sun, is the planet tidally “locked”?. From Wordnik.com. [Potentially Habitable Planet Found - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Given enough time, Earth itself could become tidally locked to the sun. From Wordnik.com. [When the moon hits your eye, it's always the same old scene] Reference
What are the parameters indicating that a planet will be tidally locked?. From Wordnik.com. [Astronomers Find Super-Earth With An Atmosphere | Universe Today] Reference
Would planets in the liquid-water range of brown dwarfs be tidally locked?. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: Well, Here's a Pretty Good Use] Reference
In the argot of planetary scientists, the moon is "tidally locked" to Earth. From Wordnik.com. [When the moon hits your eye, it's always the same old scene] Reference
In fact it probably formed in a tidally locked configuration from the start. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of Lava a Former Gas Giant | Universe Today] Reference
Could this be a periodic occurrence on extremely close tidally locked planets?. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of Lava a Former Gas Giant | Universe Today] Reference
They are generally low in gradient, often tidally influenced, and have wide valleys. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
He breathed tidally, the sweat running freely on him as the flames writhed ever closer. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
Today, Elkhorn Slough is a tidally flushed seasonal estuary with little freshwater input. From Wordnik.com. [Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, California] Reference
I've been circling the coffeeshop like a planet tidally locked around a caffeinated star. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
Finally, Bruguiera, Ceriops tagal and Xylocarpus are found in the tidally inundated areas. From Wordnik.com. [Madagascar mangroves] Reference
For many years, the innermost planet, Mercury, was thought to be tidally locked to the sun. From Wordnik.com. [When the moon hits your eye, it's always the same old scene] Reference
Heck, if 581c has a moon it might still be rotating, rather than tidally locked to the star. From Wordnik.com. [Potentially Habitable Planet Found - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Attempts at detecting its rate of rotation made us think originally that it was tidally locked. From Wordnik.com. [John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: The Atom | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
Furthermore, the simulations also reveal that these tidally induced arms are a temporary phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [Spirals, Tides, and M51 | Universe Today] Reference
Vincent's Vulcan orbits the sun at a distance of twenty million miles, and is tidally locked to the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
A red dwarf has a mass less than 0.3 suns, so the planets in their liquid water zones are surely tidally locked. From Wordnik.com. [Dwarf Red | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
Such a tidally locked planet might have a zone of acceptable conditions tangent to the radial vector to the star. From Wordnik.com. [Astronomers Find Super-Earth With An Atmosphere | Universe Today] Reference
Salt marshes, swamps, and floodplain forests are native on hydric soils of low sites along tidally-influenced rivers. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)] Reference
Doug S: if this planet is tidally locked, then the day side will be unbearably hot, and the night side unbearably cold. From Wordnik.com. [Potentially Habitable Planet Found - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Planets in its habitable zone are so close to it that they are tidally locked, always presenting the same face to their star. From Wordnik.com. [Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Once Again With Feeling: The Planets of Gliese 581] Reference
Undrained coastal lowlands and tidally influenced river margins support tidal marshes, swamps, floodplain forests, and pocosins. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)] Reference
I did the analyses on the Gliese 581 planet found a couple of years ago, and ran the numbers to find it is probably tidally locked. From Wordnik.com. [Astronomers Find Super-Earth With An Atmosphere | Universe Today] Reference
However, for such a planet in this tight an orbit with a periodicity of 20.4 hours it is not hard to figure that it is tidally locked. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of Lava a Former Gas Giant | Universe Today] Reference
They're all "tidally locked" to their parent planets. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories] Reference
Because of this distance, the world is tidally locked. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
For Wood, Melville "went tidally, between belief and unbelief". From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
A planet close enough to a red dwarf to be in its habitable zone may also be tidally. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
It says: How can there be periodic tidal stresses on the moon since it is tidally locked?. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
It's expected to be tidally locked with the star, so one side of the planet always faces the star. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Scientists also know that the planet is tidally locked, which means that only one side ever faces the star. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
This backs up the team's hypothesis that the dust disks around white dwarfs are produced by tidally disrupted minor planets. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Blogging] Reference
The moon would be tidally locked to its planet, not to the star, and therefore would have regular day-night cycles just like Earth. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Because the rotation periods of the two stars are tidally locked to the orbital period, the rapid rotation drives a magnetic dynamo. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
Such galaxies are identified by their post-starburst spectra, bulge - dominated, tidally-disturbed morphologies, and current lack of gas. From Wordnik.com. [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference
Physically, it doesn’t matter, so long as it functions tidally. From Wordnik.com. [The String Theory Backlash] Reference
"like all moons in the solar system, it's tidally locked with its parent planet,". From Wordnik.com. [Discover Blogs] Reference
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