embayment

Meaning

  1. A bay. (the water)
  2. The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)
  3. A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
  4. The process by which a bay is formed.

Etymology

From em- + bay + -ment.

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