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What (who) is basin - definition
Basin
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Basins; Basin (disambiguation)
·noun The quantity contained in a basin.
II. Basin ·noun A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.
III. Basin ·noun A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
IV. Basin ·noun The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.
V. Basin ·noun A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.
VI. Basin ·noun A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, ·etc.
VII. Basin ·noun An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center;
- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.
basin
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Basins; Basin (disambiguation)
¦ noun
1. a large bowl or open container for washing in, preparing food, or holding liquid.
2. a broadly circular valley or natural depression on the earth's surface.
an area drained by a river and its tributaries.
an enclosed area of water where boats can be moored.
3. Geology a circumscribed rock formation where the strata dip towards the centre.
Derivatives
basinful noun (plural basinfuls).
Origin
ME: from OFr. bacin, from med. L. bacinus, from bacca 'water container'.
basin
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Basins; Basin (disambiguation)
n.
1) a river; tidal basin
2) a handbasin (BE), washbasin, wash-hand (BE) basin
Examples of use of basin
1. Nigeria has eight fadama areas, or zones.'4; They include the Sokoto Basin, the Chad Basin, the Middle Niger Basin, the Benue Basin, the Southwestern Zone, the South–Central, the Southeastern and the Basement Complex.
2. The Gambella basin is an extension of the Melut basin, located in south Sudan.
3. The Reconcavo Basin is the onshore part of the Camamu Basin, where Norse is involved in the Manati gas field.
4. The greatest flooding danger includes much of the Mississippi River basin, the Ohio River basin, the lower Missouri River basin, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, most of New York, all of New England and portions of the West, including Colorado and Idaho.
5. New oil from fields in the offshore Bohai Basin, onshore western Tarim Basin and northwestern Ordos Basin has more than compensated for falling production elsewhere and may stave off the eventual decline for several more years, some say.