Half-tide doesn’t sound right to me, slack-tide is something else entirely, my google-fu has failed me.

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Mid tide?

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Median-Tide?

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I don’t claim expertise, but after living in four different coastal areas of three different bodies of water, I’ve not heard one. It’s always just “6 hours to high tide” or something like that, they want to know time to high/low point so people can plan accordingly.

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Sea level?

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Mean Tide?

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“Water finds its level, therefore the earth cant be round”

/Sorry

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“Stand of the tide” is offered by Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_tide?wprov=sfti1#Misconceptions

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stand of the tide’, which is when tide levels ‘stand’ at a maximum or minimum

Isn’t that when it’s just standing at high or low tide?

Some googling leads me to find it’s either “ebb tide” or “flood tide” depending on whether it’s halfway falling or halfway rising, respectively. I’m not sure if this is exactly half way though, some diagrams make it appear that any time in between in either one of these, not necessarily half way exactly.

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We use them as just the tide flow here.

I wouldn’t be taken aback if someone said half tide, and is probably what I would use if I was asked on the spot

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Never liked the way half-tide sounded, I think I’m liking Mean-Tide, or Median-Tide if I’m feeling fancy.

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I think you’re right about slack and stand, and ebb and flood would work but it’s usually just a glimpse when I drive over a bridge that makes me think about it, so I don’t know which way it’s going.

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Stauwasser

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Isn’t that more like Slack-tide when a high or low tide turns and becomes still (Stau like traffic?)

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That’s what he asked though? The point between rising and falling tide

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I was wondering about the point where it is halfway between high and low, whether it is ebbing or flowing. Slack is more the high or low point where it switches from ebbing to flowing.

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