"embayment" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: embayments [plural]
Etymology: em- + bay + -ment Etymology templates: {{confix|en|en|bay|ment|alt1=em}} em- + bay + -ment Head templates: {{en-noun}} embayment (plural embayments)
  1. A bay. (the water) Translations (bay): залив (zaliv) [masculine] (Bulgarian), Bucht [feminine] (German), Einbuchtung [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-embayment-en-noun-42H8zqtC Disambiguation of 'bay': 34 26 23 17
  2. The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water) Translations (shoreline): Buchtuferline [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-embayment-en-noun-f3VV8Vqv Disambiguation of 'shoreline': 0 97 3 0
  3. A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment. Categories (place): Landforms
    Sense id: en-embayment-en-noun-Bs-qiK7j Disambiguation of Landforms: 12 12 51 25 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with en-, English terms suffixed with -ment Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 7 52 40 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 2 5 69 24 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with en-: 8 11 54 26 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ment: 5 8 60 27
  4. The process by which a bay is formed.
    Sense id: en-embayment-en-noun-SQwOZ96E

Inflected forms

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