Historical Examples. 1  I do not contest the truth of the principle of continuity on which this view is based. 2  The continuity of nature does not fail saving for extraordinary instances. 3  The processes of his mind are characterised by continuity, consistency, and a kind of gathering intensity of movement.
In most places, two high tides and two low tides occur daily. Tides happen because the moon's gravity is pulling on the Earth and its oceans. The oceans are fluid and can move more than the land, so they move towards the moon. As the moon revolves around the Earth, it creates high tides and low tides.
A tide that occurs when the difference between high and low tide is least. Neap tide comes twice a month, in the first and third quarters of the moon. Middle English neep, from Old English n&emacron;p(fl&omacron;d), neap (tide). Neap tides occur when the sun, earth, and moon form a right angle and the gravitational pull of the sun counteracts the pull of the moon. neap-tide. The tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide.