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Catchment   /kˈætʃmənt/   Listen
Catchment

noun
1.
A structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area).



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catchment area
catchment basin


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"Catchment" Quotes from Famous Books



... be formulated and submitted for approval to the harbour commissioners for the exploitation of white coal (hydraulic power), obtained by hydroelectric plant at peak of tide at Dublin bar or at head of water at Poulaphouca or Powerscourt or catchment basins of main streams for the economic production of 500,000 W. H. P. of electricity. A scheme to enclose the peninsular delta of the North Bull at Dollymount and erect on the space of the foreland, used for golf links and rifle ranges, an asphalted esplanade ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... and many European countries rain gauges have been established at a greater or less number of stations for many years past, and data thereby afforded for estimating approximately the rainfall of any given district or catchment basin. The term "watershed" is one which it appears to me is frequently misapplied; as I understand it, watershed is equivalent to what in America is termed the "divide," and means the boundary of the catchment ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 • Various


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