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Definition of BASIN

Basin
Basin Ba"sin, n. [OF. bacin, F. bassin, LL. bacchinus, fr. bacca a water vessel, fr. L. bacca berry, in allusion to the round shape; or perh. fr. Celtic. Cf. Bac.] 1. A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses. 2. The quantity contained in a basin. 3. 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. 4. A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay. 5. (Physical Geog.) (a) 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. (b) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake. 6. (Geol.) 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.

Meaning of BASIN from wikipedia

- Look up basin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Basin may refer to: Depression (geology) Back-arc basin, a submarine feature ****ociated with island...
- A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body...
- The Basin may refer to several places: The Basin, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia The Basin, Victoria, an outer eastern suburb of Melbourne...
- The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000...
- An endorheic basin (/ˌɛndoʊˈriː.ɪk/ EN-doh-REE-ik; also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows...
- The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent...
- The Tidal Basin is a man-made reservoir located between the Potomac River and the Washington Channel in Washington, D.C. The Basin is part of West Potomac...
- The Mississippi River is the primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern...
- The Tonto Basin, also known as Pleasant Valley, covers the main drainage basin of Tonto Cr**** and its tributaries in central Arizona, at the southwest...
- 720 mi). It is the only major river to cross the equator twice. The Congo Basin has a total area of about 4,000,000 km2 (1,500,000 sq mi), or 13% of the...