drainage basin
Noun
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Noun
drainage basin (plural drainage basins)
- (hydrology) A topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet; a watershed.
- Synonyms: watershed, catchment area, catchment basin
- 1967, Lawrence K. Lustig, Robert D. Busch, Sediment Transport in Cache Creek Drainage Basin in the Coast Ranges West of Sacramento, California, page 2 ↗:
- The efficient evaluation of these plans, which may include the construction of dams, reservoirs, and settling basins, requires information on sediment transport in the Cache Creek drainage basin.
- French: bassin versant
- German: Einzugsgebiet, Wassereinzugsgebiet
- Italian: bacino idrografico, bacino imbrifero
- Portuguese: bacia hidrográfica
- Russian: бассе́йн
- Spanish: cuenca hidrográfica, cuenca
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