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Catchment basin

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drainage basinnoun(hydrology) A topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet; a watershed.
catchment areanoun(hydrology) An area from which water drains into a particular lake, river, etc.; the catchment area of a large river includes its tributaries.
drainage areanounSynonym of watershed.
drainage systemnoun(geomorphology) pattern formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin
water partingnounSynonym of watershed, the ridge(s) separating rainfall into different streams.
basin of attractionnoun(mathematics, physics) Informally, a set of points from which a dynamical system spontaneously moves to a particular attractor.
drip linenounA pipe that has small holes at intervals, used to irrigate crops.
keylinenoun(graphic design) A boundary line that separates color and monochromatic areas or differently colored areas of print.
watershednoun(hydrology, US, Canada) A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin.
autogeosynclinenoun(geology) A parageosyncline that subsides as an elliptical basin or trough nearly without associated highlands. Also known as intracratonic basin.
depocenternoun(geology) The location of the thickest deposit in a sedimentary basin.
water tablenoun(geology) The level, underground, below which the ground is saturated with water.
keypointnounAn important point in an image, used in computer vision systems when detecting objects etc.
depocentrenounAlternative form of depocenter. [(geology) The location of the thickest deposit in a sedimentary basin.]
versantnounA slope of a mountain or mountain ridge.
flowpathnounThe path taken by a flowing fluid.
basin and range topographynounCharacterized by alternating parallel mountain ranges and valleys.
groundwater levelnoun(construction) The level, at a particular site, below which the subsoil and rock masses of the earth are fully saturated with water.
hydrographnounA graph of flow past a point in a river versus time.
continental dividenounA line of elevated terrain that divides a watershed or a continent, so that water flowing on either side eventually travels to separate bodies of water.

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