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2281 | hinterland | The district behind that lying along the COAST; the back country. |
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2282 | historic bay | Historic bays are those over which the coastal state has publicly claimed and exercised jurisdiction and this jurisdiction has been accepte... more |
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2283 | hoarfrost | Deposit of ICE, having a crystalline appearance, generally assuming the form of scales, needles, feathers or fans. Hoarfrost is produced in... more |
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2284 | hodograph | Used in oceanography. The tidal current vector hodograph is the figure traced out by the tip of a vector representing the current over the t... more |
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2285 | hodometer | See ODOMETER. |
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2286 | holding ground | An expression usually used with a modifying adjective to indicate the quality of the holding power of the material constituting the BOTTOM... more |
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2287 | hole | An abrupt HOLLOW in the GROUND or ocean floor. See also PASSAGE. |
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2288 | holiday | An unintentional unsurveyed area within a given hydrographic survey where the spacing between sounding lines or surveys exceeds the maximum ... more |
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2289 | hollow | TROUGH or depression between CRESTS of sea-waves. A cavity or HOLE. |
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2290 | homing | NAVIGATION toward a point by maintaining constant some navigational COORDINATE(S), usually BEARING. The procedure of using the direction-... more |
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2291 | hook | A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of anything; especially a bend in a RIVER. A projecting corner, POINT or SPIT of LAND. |
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2292 | horizon | In general, the apparent or visible junction of the EARTH and sky, as seen from any specific position. |
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2293 | horizon: apparent | The irregular line along which rays from the point of observation are tangent to the surface of the EARTH. Also called visible (or local) ho... more |
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2294 | horizon: artificial | A device for indicating the HORIZONTAL, as a bubble, GYROSCOPE, PENDULUM, or the flat reflecting surface of a liquid. |
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2295 | horizon: celestial | That circle of the CELESTIAL SPHERE, formed by the intersection of the CELESTIAL SPHERE and a plane through the centre of the EARTH, and pe... more |
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2296 | horizon: closing the | Measuring the last of a series of horizontal angles at a STATION required to make the series complete around the HORIZON. See also ERROR OF ... more |
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2297 | horizon: dip of the | See DIP. |
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2298 | horizon: false | A line resembling the APPARENT HORIZON but above or below it. |
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2299 | horizon: radio | See RADIO. |
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2300 | horizon: rational | See HORIZON: CELESTIAL. |