Definitions for bristol channel
bris·tol chan·nel

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1. Bristol Channelnoun

   an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England

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1. Bristol Channelnoun

   an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between South Wales and England; an extension of the estuary of the River Severn

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1. bristol channel

   The Bristol Channel is a major inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, situated in the southwest of Great Britain, separating Wales from the western part of England. It extends approximately 85 miles in length and is considerably wide, varying between 5 and 50 miles. It is notorious for having the second highest tidal range in the world, leading to a dynamic coastal environment. Ports along the Bristol Channel include Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Bristol, and Ilfracombe.

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1. Bristol Channel

   The Bristol Channel is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West England. It extends from the lower estuary of the River Severn to the North Atlantic Ocean. It takes its name from the English city of Bristol, and is over 30 miles across at its widest point. Long stretches of the coastline of the Bristol Channel, on both the South Wales and West Country sides, are designated as Heritage Coast, including Exmoor, Bideford Bay, the Hartland Point peninsula, Lundy Island, Glamorgan, Gower Peninsula, South Pembrokeshire and Caldey Island.

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1. Bristol Channel

   an inlet in SW. of England, between S. Wales and Devon and Cornwall, 8 m. in length, from 5 to 43 in breadth, and with a depth of from 5 to 40 fathoms; is subject to very high tides, and as such dangerous to shipping; numerous rivers flow into it.

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1. • Atlantic Ocean
   • Inlet

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bristol channel in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bristol channel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of bristol channel in a Sentence

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   The design we have at the moment and the proposition we have at the moment is to put a tidal fence, which is a chain of these turbines in the Bristol Channel, and if we can build up to say ten kilometers worth, which is a very extended fence, you're looking at power outputs of five or six hundred megawatts and just to visualize that that's like one small nuclear reactor's worth of electricity being generated from the tides in the Bristol Channel.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bristol channel
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bristol_Channel
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=bristol channel
5. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#BristolChannel