Basin vs Subbasin - What's the difference?
basin | subbasin |
A bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.
(geography) An area of land from which water drains into a specific river.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
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, title=Runaway Devils Lake
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(geography) A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.
(geography) A basin within a larger basin.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 14, author=Felicity Barringer, title=Rising Calls to Regulate California Groundwater, work=New York Times
, passage=Since 2006 the surface of the aquifer, in the Kaweah subbasin of the San Joaquin basin, has dropped 50 feet as farmers pumped deeper, Mr. Watte says. }}
As a proper noun basin
is a cdp in montana.As a noun subbasin is
(geography) a basin within a larger basin.basin
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin' is an endorheic, or closed, ' basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}
Synonyms
* (bowl) sinkDerived terms
* basin of attraction * catchment basin * Chad Basin * drainage basin * oceanic basin * sedimentary basin * Tarim BasinExternal links
* *See also
* (wikipedia "basin") *Anagrams
* ----subbasin
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Noun
(en noun)citation