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A shoal is a sandbank or reef creating shallow water, especially where it forms a hazard to shipping.
Shoal, shoals or shoaling may also refer to:
Locations
- The Shoals, a region in northwest Alabama, United States
- Shoals, Indiana, a town in the United States
Science
- Wave shoaling, the change of wave height for sea waves propagating into shallow water
- Shoaling and schooling, ways that fish and other aquatic animals behave when in large groups
Other
- Project Shoal, an underground nuclear test
- Project Shoal (software), a java based scalable dynamic clustering framework.
- Shoal draught (or draft), of a boat with shallow draught which can pass over some shoals: see Draft (hull)
See also
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