Dictionary term
Tide Table
Direct answer
Tide Table is a schedule of predicted times and heights of high and low water for a stated location.
Tide Table is a predicted water-level table used in historical astronomy, timekeeping, or navigation.
- Source
- The Great Almanac Dictionary
- Category
- Historical Almanacs & Instruments
- Also appears in
- Historical Almanacs & Instruments
- Aliases
- None listed
- Last updated
- 2026-07-16
Quick reference
- Use when
- Use Tide Table by using the correct station, datum, time zone, date, and current official correction information.
- Do not use it for
- Wind, pressure, river flow, and storm surge can make observed water levels differ sharply from predictions.
- Reference category
- Historical Almanacs & Instruments
- Related terms
- Almanac Ephemeris, Agricultural Almanac, Equation of Time Table, Lunar Distance Table
The story behind Tide Table
Printed tide tables brought astronomical tide prediction into ports, navigation, fisheries, surveying, and coastal work.
Tide Table in spiritual tradition
Tide Table rewards careful observation, explicit assumptions, and humility about the limits of every model or measurement.
The Great Almanac frames Tide Table with educational restraint. Mystical or symbolic language may be meaningful, but it should not be exaggerated into certainty, panic, or permission to ignore ordinary responsibility.
Tide Table in the Bible
This is a factual history-of-science, instrument, timekeeping, or navigation reference. It may support wonder and disciplined attention without becoming a claim of fate, worship, or private revelation.
Tide Table in numerology
Tide Table is not a numerology claim. Any numbers attached to it should retain their ordinary scientific, calendrical, navigational, or historical meaning unless a separate symbolic interpretation is clearly labeled.
Why Tide Table matters
Tide Table matters because coastal planning depends on local harmonic predictions rather than a generic statement about the Moon phase.
Example in a reading: A harbor table may predict two high waters and two low waters for a civil date.
Interpretive caution: Wind, pressure, river flow, and storm surge can make observed water levels differ sharply from predictions.
How Tide Table is used in a reading
Use Tide Table by using the correct station, datum, time zone, date, and current official correction information.
Where interpretation stops
Tide Table is presented as sourced astronomy, calendrical, Earth-science, cultural, or instrument-history reference. Definitions should distinguish measured phenomena from civil convention and historical interpretation, preserve location and time dependencies, and avoid turning factual sky data into a deterministic personal claim.
Sources and editorial method
Research references used for this entry include:
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: The American Practical Navigator - Official modern reference for navigation principles, celestial observations, sight reduction, and navigational tables.
The page starts with a direct definition, then separates use, example, caution, spiritual meaning, and historical context. For astrology, occult, demonology, curse, and spiritual warfare terms, the editorial rule is to explain the term without making fear-based, fatalistic, medical, legal, financial, or ritual-instruction claims.
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