A breakwater is a permanent structure constructed at a coastal area to protect against tides, currents, waves, and storm surges. Breakwaters have been...

Look up breakwater or break water in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breakwater may refer to: Breakwater (structure), a structure for protecting a beach...

weather and longshore drift, primarily to enforce coastal structures such as seawalls and breakwaters. Tetrapods are made of concrete, and use a tetrahedral...

Human-made underwater structure that functions as a reef Breakwater (structure) – Coastal defense structure Breakwater (structure)#Breakwater armour units Coastal...

massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater, or a causeway separating two bodies of water. A mole may have a wooden structure built...

harbor remained divided by concrete sub-mooring pens. The large breakwater structure (which still exists) was actually a sub-repair facility. At the shore...

of hydraulic structures to reduce coastal erosion Related types of walls: Accropode – Concrete breakwater element Breakwater (structure) – Coastal defense...

an expression in theatre Breakdancing Breaking (disambiguation) Breakwater (structure) Broke (disambiguation) Burglary, sometimes called a "break-in"...

concrete blocks designed to resist the action of waves on breakwaters and coastal structures. The Accropode is a single-layer artificial armour unit developed...

4.1486611°W / 50.3341611; -4.1486611 Plymouth Breakwater is a 1,560-metre (1,710 yd) stone breakwater protecting Plymouth Sound and the anchorages near...

States. A lighthouse was first built here in 1855 as a wooden structure. The breakwater was extended and a new lighthouse was constructed at the end of...

groyne or Bulkhead breakwater When groyne is built to attach a breakwater to shore, the resulting T-structure is called "headland breakwater", "headland groyne"...

underwater structure that functions as a reef Breakwater (structure) – Coastal defense structure Gabion – Cage full of rock KOLOS – Concrete breakwater element...

wave-dissipating concrete block intended to protect coastal structures like seawalls and breakwaters from the ocean waves. These blocks were developed in India...

Apparel, an American company All pages with titles containing bulwark Breakwater (structure) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...

constructed near the southern breakwater at Port Kembla. The battery and observation post (now a military museum) were key structures of the command centre for...

Gayundah was run aground at Woody Point near Redcliffe, to serve as a breakwater structure. In the 1870s the British military presence in Australia had declined...

harbour breakwaters replacing the initial "Gooseberry" block ships. Caissons were added in the autumn of 1944 to reinforce the existing structure to cope...

removing a hazard to navigation. A scuttled ship can be also used as breakwater structure or to deny or restrict access to an area to other shipping. Shipwrecks...

Holyhead Breakwater is situated at the north-western end of Holyhead in Anglesey in Wales. The Victorian structure, which is 1.71 miles (2.75 km) long...

groynes, to build up the volume of material between the coast and the breakwater structure in order to accommodate storm surges. The creation of ports and harbours...

to provide satisfactory stability characteristics for rubble structures such as breakwaters under attack from storm wave conditions. The equation was developed...

Manistique to draw up plans for a concrete breakwater structure. The contract to construct the breakwaters was awarded to the Greiling Brothers Company...

second-tallest fountain. Additionally, in 2015, a 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) breakwater (structure), the Oyster Rock Strip, was built in collaboration with China under...

The Rockland Breakwater is a breakwater sheltering the harbor of Rockland, Maine. More than 4,000 feet (1,200 m) long, it was built in the 1890s by the...

and filled with a sand slurry, to form an artificial coastal structure such as a breakwaters, dune or levee. Geotextile tubes are a component of the living...

The Breakwater Lodge in the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa was built as a prison in 1859. It is now part of the University of Cape...

dynamics theory on the propagation of gravity waves Breakwater (structure) – Coastal defense structure Boussinesq approximation (water waves) – Approximation...

Conservancy hope that these oysters colonize on breakwater structures and that the space on these breakwater structures increase biodiversity. In response the...

The North Breakwater Dome (北防波堤ドーム, kita bōhatei dōmu) is a long arched "semi-domical" structure in the port area of Wakkanai, Hokkaidō, Japan. Rising...