The lowest segment of a beach, between lowest tide and the berm crest, covered by most daily tides, technically between the "lowest low water" line and the "ordinary high water" line
(1) The part of the shore, lying between the berm crest and the ordinary low water mark, which is ordinarily traversed by the uprush and backrush of the waves as the tides rise and fall (2) The same as the beach face where unconsolidated material is present (3) (SMP) In general terms, the beach between mean higher high water and mean lower low water
The sloping portion of a beach profile that lies between a berm crest (or, in its absence, the upper limit of wave swash at high tide) and the low water mark of the backrush of the wave swash at low tide This term has been used synonymously with beach face, although the foreshore can also contain some of the flat portion of the profile below the beach face See Komar (1976)