drainage basin

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Noun

drainage basin (plural drainage basins)

(hydrology) A topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet; a watershed.
Synonyms: (US) watershed, catchment area, catchment basin
- 1967, Lawrence K. Lustig, Robert D. Busch, Sediment Transport in Cache Creek Drainage Basin in the Coast Ranges West of Sacramento, California, page 2:
  The efficient evaluation of these plans, which may include the construction of dams, reservoirs, and settling basins, requires information on sediment transport in the Cache Creek drainage basin.

Translations

topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet

Bulgarian: водосборна зона f (vodosborna zona), водосборен басейн m (vodosboren basejn)
Catalan: conca (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 流域 (zh) (liúyù)
Czech: povodí (cs) n (of a river or a lake), úmoří n (of a sea or an ocean)
Danish: afvandingsområde (da) n
Dutch: stroomgebied (nl), spaarbekken (nl) n
Finnish: valuma-alue (fi), vesistöalue (fi)
French: bassin versant (fr)
Georgian: წყალსაკრები აუზი (c̣q̇alsaḳrebi auzi), წყალსაკრები ფართობი (c̣q̇alsaḳrebi partobi), მდინარის აუზი (mdinaris auzi)
German: Einzugsgebiet n, Wassereinzugsgebiet n
Greek: λεκάνη απορροής (el) f (lekáni aporroḯs)
Hebrew: אגן היקוות m (agán hikavút), אגן ניקוז (he) m
Hindi: जलविभाजन m (jalvibhājan)
Hungarian: vízgyűjtő terület (hu)
Italian: bacino idrografico m, bacino imbrifero m
Japanese: 流域 (ja) (りゅういき, ryūiki)
Kannada: ಜಲಾನಯನ ಪ್ರದೇಶ (kn) (jalānayana pradēśa)
Macedonian: слив m (sliv)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nedbørfelt n

Nynorsk: nedbørfelt n
Polish: dorzecze (pl) n, zlewnia (pl) f
Portuguese: bacia hidrográfica (pt) f
Romanian: bazin de drenaj n, bazin hidrografic (ro) n
Russian: бассе́йн (ru) m (basséjn), бассе́йн водоёма m (basséjn vodojóma), водосбо́р (ru) m (vodosbór), водосбо́рная пло́щадь f (vodosbórnaja plóščadʹ)
Slovak: úvodie n, povodie n
Spanish: cuenca hidrográfica f, cuenca (es) f
Swedish: flodområde, avrinningsområde (sv) n
Vietnamese: lưu vực (vi)
Yiddish: באַסיין m (baseyn)

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