embayment
Americannoun
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a coastal recess that forms a bay.
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Physical Geography. the process by which a bay is formed.
noun
Etymology
Origin of embayment
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In January 2022, the landfast sea ice in the embayment suddenly broke apart, likely due to powerful ocean swells that destabilized the region.
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
We were more than halfway through the survey before the echo sounder detected any krill—a patch of the crustaceans suspended above the seafloor in the shallow waters of the embayment.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 14, 2023
The only thing preventing it from flowing directly into the Amundsen Sea embayment is a shelf of floating ice that sticks out from the glacier’s edge.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2021
In the East Siberian Sea, they steered the Pangaea into an embayment in the ice cap that Ousland, who closely studies satellite images of the Arctic, had observed growing for years.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 24, 2020
Soon as receiving their orders the two Hussars had dismounted, and tied up their horses, one on each side of the rocky embayment; they themselves, with their curious charge, occupying the space between.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid
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