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bight
bight, broad bend or curve in a coastline, forming a large open bay. The New York bight, for example, is the curve in the coast described by the southern shore of Long Island and the eastern shore of New Jersey. The term bight may also refer to the bay so formed.
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bight
[bīt] (geology)
A long, gradual bend or recess in the coastline which forms a large, open receding bay.
A bend in a river or mountain range.
(oceanography)
An indentation in shelf ice, fast ice, or a floe.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
bight
a wide indentation of a shoreline, or the body of water bounded by such a curve
Bight
the Austral informal the major indentation of the S coast of Australia, from Cape Pasley in W Australia to the Eyre Peninsula in S Australia
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