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drainage basin
noun
the area drained by a river and all its tributaries. Also called catchment area, drainage area. Compare watershed ( def 2 ).
Origin:
1880–85, Americanism
1880–85, Americanism
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| drainage basin or drainage area | |
| —n | |
| another name for catchment area | |
| drainage area or drainage area | |
| —n | |
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Science Dictionary
drainage basin  (drā'nĭj) Pronunciation Key
An area drained by a river system. A drainage basin includes all areas that gather precipitation water and direct it to a particular stream, stream system, lake, or other body of standing water. |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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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. The boundary between drainage basins is a drainage divide: all the precipitation on opposite sides of a drainage divide will flow into different drainage basins.
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Example sentences
The answer to this question is your watershed address, the drainage basin where you live.
It represents, of course, the extent to which the general level of the surface of the river's drainage basin is annually lowered.
Topographic maps were also used to delineate wetland and vegetation coverage, and drainage basin size.
Every river is part of a network of watersheds that make up a river system's entire drainage basin.
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