Look up: watershed

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   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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   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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   Watershed
   The land area that is drained by a river or estuary and its tributaries
   Found on http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/glo
   
   
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   watershed
   [n] - a line that divides two adjacent river systems
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   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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   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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   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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   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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   watershed
   water parting noun a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
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    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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    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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    Watershed
    Catchment area of a drainage basin.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo
    
    
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    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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