Look up: Watershed

1. watershed
   An area of land that collects and discharges water into a single stream or other outlet. Also called a catchment or drainage basin.
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2. Watershed
   The land area that drains into a stream; the watershed for a major river may encompass a number of smaller watersheds that ultimately combine at a common point.
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3. Watershed
   The land area that is drained by a river or estuary and its tributaries
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4. watershed
   [n] - a line that divides two adjacent river systems
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5. watershed
   an area of land that drains to a common outlet, such as the outflow of a lake, the mouth of a river or any point along a stream channel.
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6. watershed
   the whole region which contributes to the supply of water to a river or lake Category: General • boundary between catchment areas or drainage areas Category: The cosmos
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7. Watershed
   Wa"ter·shed` noun [ Confer German wasserscheide ; wasser water + scheide a place where two things separate, from scheiden to separate.] 1. The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake. 2. The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; th …
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8. watershed
   1. The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake. ... 2. The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin. ... Origin: Cf. G. Wasserscheide; wasser water + scheide a place where two things separate, fr. …
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9. watershed
   water parting noun a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
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10. Watershed
    `Watershed` originally meant the dividing line between two drainage basins, from an old term `shedding`, meaning splitting or dividing. Some uses of the term keep this meaning, but in North American geographical usage watershed has come to mean the drainage basin itself.
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11. Watershed
    `Watershed` originally meant the dividing line between two drainage basins, from an old term `shedding`, meaning splitting or dividing. Some uses of the term keep this meaning, but in North American geographical usage watershed has come to mean the drainage basin itself.
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12. Watershed
    • (n.) The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin. • (n.) The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.
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13. Watershed
    Catchment area of a drainage basin.
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