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• n  the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean
• a  of or relating to a coastal or shore region

• Three times the size of Texas, Algeria takes in a swatch of the Sahara, two broad seams of the Atlas Mountains, and a 100-mile-wide ribbon of fertile Mediterranean littoral where .
• It's not the white-sanded littoral paradise of a thousand movies but a grungy, rock-strewn place.
• On the littoral, the revolutionary effect of four centuries of globalization makes it hard to identify what is European about a culture and what is international.

• litoral
• littoral zone
• sands

News & Articles

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• Littoral ship’s troubled Asia tour cited by lawmakers
  The House panel that funds defense spending said it’s “disturbed by the number of problems” marring the deployment to Asia of the Navy’s first Littoral Combat Ship.
  June 15, 2013 - Stars and Stripes
• RUGGED COMPUTERS: Navy Chooses Rugged Embedded Computers From Ballard Technology For LCS Ship Modules
  U.S. Navy electronics designers needed rugged embedded computers for mission module packages aboard the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). They found their solution from Ballard Technology Inc. in Everett, Wash
  June 14, 2013 - EmbeddedTechnology.com
• U.S. focus pulls in Pacific nations for wider trade links
  SANTIAGO, Chile, June 13 (UPI) -- Latin America's Pacific littoral states Chile, Colombia and Peru will likely be key to cementing U.S. President Barack Obama's Trans Pacific Partnership, analysts say.
  June 13, 2013 - UPI

Quotes

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• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in USA Today
  All issues related to the Caspian should be settled exclusively by littoral nations,Ahmadinejad said.
• Manouchehr Mottaki in WashingtonTV
  The summit is against previous agreements, in which the five Caspian littoral states came to the understanding that any decision on the waterway should be made with the participation of all its neighboring countries,Mottaki added.
• Gary Roughead in ForexTV.com
  I am absolutely committed to the Littoral Combat Ship,Roughead said in a statement. "We need this ship. It is very important that our acquisition efforts produce the right littoral combat ship capability to the fleet at the right cost."