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Look up: phreatic

  1. phreatic
    [adj] - of or relating to ground water
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. phreatic
    the lowest level reached by water table at a given place and for a given cycle of fluctuation Category: The cosmos • Upward movement of water table Category: The cosmos • an underground divide that fixes the boundary of area that contributes ground water to each stream system Category: The cosmos • the downward movement of the water table Category: The cosmos...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Phreatic
    Phre·at'ic adjective [ French phréatique , from Greek ..., ..., a well.] (Geol.) Subterranean; -- applied to sources supplying wells.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/78

  4. phreatic
    adjective of or relating to ground water
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. Phreatic
    The term `phreatic` is used in geology to refer to matters relating to ground water below the static water table (the word originates from the Greek `phrear`, `phreat-` meaning `well` or `spring`). `Phreatic surface` is a synonym for `water table.` The `phreatic zone` is the layer(s) of soil or rock below the water table in which voids are permanently saturated with groundwater, as opposed to the higher `vadose zone` in which the pore spaces are...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreatic

  6. Phreatic
    • (a.) Subterranean; -- applied to sources supplying wells.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. phreatic
    phreatic Pertaining to, or related to, underground waters; especially, those at or below the water table and accessible through wells.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf


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