tidally

Adverb

Meaning

In a tidal manner.

Using the tides.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

All of the planets are thought to be tidally locked to their star, which means they rotate once per orbit so that one side is constantly bathed in daylight. Source: Internet

And it appears there is a great problem with the atmosphere of such tidally locked planets: the perpetual night zone would be cold enough to freeze the main gases of their atmospheres, leaving the daylight zone nude and dry. Source: Internet

A tidally locked body in synchronous rotation takes just as long to rotate around its own axis as it does to revolve around its partner. Source: Internet

In other words, Umbriel is a synchronous or tidally locked satellite, with one face always pointing toward its parent planet. Source: Internet

Callisto's rotation is tidally locked to its orbit around Jupiter, so that the same hemisphere always faces inward; Jupiter appears to stand nearly still in Callisto's sky. Source: Internet

For many years it was thought that Mercury was synchronously tidally locked with the Sun, rotating once for each orbit and always keeping the same face directed towards the Sun, in the same way that the same side of the Moon always faces Earth. Source: Internet

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