Watershed vs Basin - What's the difference?
watershed | basin |
(hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
(US) A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin.
A critical point marking a change in course or development.
(Canada, British) The time after which material of more adult nature (violence, swear words, sex) may be broadcast on television or radio, either one laid down or one contrived (e.g. when children are not watching...)
A bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.
(geography) An area of land from which water drains into a specific river.
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(geography) A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.
As nouns the difference between watershed and basin
is that watershed is the topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest while basin is a bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.As a proper noun Basin is
a CDP in Montana.watershed
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(wikipedia watershed) (en noun)Synonyms
* (boundary between two adjacent catchment basins) water parting, drainage divide, water divide, divide * (drainage basin) catchment basin, catchment, catchment area, drainage area, river basin, water basin * (time after which adult material may be broadcast) safe harbor (US) * (critical point marking a change in course or development) turning pointDerived terms
* postwatershed * prewatershed * watersheddingbasin
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(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.}}
