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Encyclopedia > Fetch (geography)

Fetch is a term for the length of water over which a given wind has blown. It is used in geography and is usually associated with coastal erosion. It plays a large part in longshore drift as well. In geography, longshore drift (LSD) (or littoral drift) refers to a process by which sediments move along a beach shoreline. ...


Example: The winds which travel from the East coast of America and hit the west coast of Ireland would have an extremely large fetch.


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Fetch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (199 words)
In geography fetch is a term for the length of water over which a given wind has blown.
In oceanography fetch is a term for the length of water over which a given wind has blown.
Fetch is a game played between a human and a pet in which the human throws an object for the pet to catch and/or retrieve.
Station Information - Fetch (118 words)
Fetch is simply the length of water over which the wind has blown.
It is used in geography and is usually associated with coastal erosion.
It fetches instructions from a memory or cache and feeds them to the rest of the pipeline.
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