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- 1. a bowl for washing, typically attached to a wall and having taps connected to a water supply; a washbasin. British Similar
- 2. a wide open container used for preparing food or for holding liquid: "she poured water from the jug into the basin"
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Jun 28, 2024 · Both river basins and watersheds are areas of land that drain to a particular water body, such as a lake, stream, river, or estuary. However, the key distinction lies in their size and scope. A river basin refers to a larger area of land where all the water drains into a large river.
Jul 17, 2024 · drainage basin, area from which all precipitation flows to a single stream or set of streams. For example, the total area drained by the Mississippi River constitutes its drainage basin, whereas that part of the Mississippi River drained by the Ohio River is the Ohio’s drainage basin.
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Jul 19, 2024 · Amazon basin, the drainage basin of the Amazon River that covers about 34 percent of the land of South America (about 6,100,000 square km [roughly 2,300,000 square miles]) and is located in the center and eastern portions of the continent.
Jul 19, 2024 · The Indian Ocean is the smallest, geologically youngest, and physically most complex of the world’s three major oceans (the others being the Pacific and Atlantic). Although it first opened some 140 million years ago, almost all of the Indian Ocean basin is less than 80 million years old.
3 days ago · Every ocean basin has a mid-ocean ridge, which creates a long mountain range beneath the ocean. Together they form the global mid-oceanic ridge system that features the longest mountain range in the world. The longest continuous mountain range is 65,000 km (40,000 mi).
3 days ago · The Danube River Basin is divided into three main parts, separated by "gates" where the river is forced to cut through mountainous sections: Upper Basin, from the headwaters to the Devín Gate. Middle Basin, usually called the Pannonian basin or Carpathian Basin, between the Devín Gate and the Iron Gates.
Jul 3, 2024 · noun. a storage site similar to a detention basin but the water in storage is permanently obstructed from flowing downstream. see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Retention basin." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/retention basin. Accessed 01 Jun. 2024. Copy citation.
