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 ri...
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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 wat...
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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
    • (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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11. Watershed
    Catchment area of a drainage basin.
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12. watershed
    watershed, elevation or divide separating the catchment area, or drainage basin, of one river system or group of river systems from another system or group of systems. The term is also often used synonymously with drainage basin. The continental divide in the US along the Rocky Mts. forms the waters...
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13. watershed
    Type: Term Pronunciation: wah′tĕr-shed Definitions: 1. The area of marginal blood flow at the extreme periphery of a vascular bed. 2. Slopes in the abdominal cavity, formed by projections of the lumbar vertebrae and the pelvic brim, that determine the direction in which a free effusion gravitates when the body is supine. &nbs...
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14. watershed
    Boundary formed by height differences in the land, situated between two rivers or drainage basins
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15. watershed
    the ridge or crestline separating two drainage areas. (Hence the turning point in affairs)
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16. watershed
    the area of land where water from rain or melting snow drains downhill into a river, lake or other body of water
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17. Watershed
    (television) The terms `the watershed` or `safe harbor` are used for the time period (or the times delimiting this) in television schedules during which `adult content` can be shown. The term watershed means "the ridge or crest line dividing two drainage areas", thus m...
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18. Watershed
    (South African band) `Watershed` is a South African Pop-Rock band, which was founded in Johannesburg in 1998. History: Most famous for their signature tune `Indigo Girl` in 2002, Watershed became a `natural` success when a German radio DJ heard the single whilst vacationing in South Africa an...
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19. Watershed
    (American band) `Watershed` is an American rock band based in Columbus, Ohio, consisting of Colin Gawel (guitar, vocals), Joe Oestreich (bass, vocals), Mark "Poochie" Borror (guitar), Dave Masica (url=http://joeoestreich.com/rocking/-->--> including Gene Simmons Family Jewels...
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20. Watershed
    (image processing) A grey-level image may be seen as a topographic relief, where the grey level of a pixel is interpreted as its altitude in the relief. A drop of water falling on a topographic relief flows along a path to finally reach a local minimum. Intuitively, the `watershed` of a relie...
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21. Watershed
    (k.d. lang album) `Watershed` is the fifth solo studio album by 5-->. It is her first collection of original material since 2000`s Invincible Summer. In the US, it debuted at #8 on the Billboard 200, with approximately 41,000 copies sold. In Australia it debuted at #3 on ...
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22. Watershed
    (Grant McLennan album) `Watershed` is the debut solo album by Grant McLennan, a member of The Go-Betweens released under the name G. W. McLennan. The album was recorded nine months after The Go-Betweens disbanded; it was released in 1991. It featured contributions by singer-songwriters...
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