drainage basin

drainage basin

English

Drainage basin

Noun

drainage basin (plural drainage basins)

1. (hydrology) A topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet; a watershed.

Synonyms

• watershed (US)
• catchment area
• catchment basin

Translations

topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet

Bulgarian: водосборна зона f (vodosborna zona), водосборен басейн m (vodosboren basejn) Catalan: conca (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 流域 (zh) (liúyù) Czech: povodí (cs) n (of a river or a lake), úmoří n (of a sea or an ocean) Dutch: stroomgebied (nl), spaarbekken (nl) n Finnish: valuma-alue (fi), vesistöalue (fi) French: bassin versant (fr) Georgian: წყალსაკრები აუზი (c̣q̇alsaḳrebi auzi) German: Einzugsgebiet n, Wassereinzugsgebiet n Greek: λεκάνη απορροής (el) f (lekáni aporroḯs) Hebrew: אגן היקוות‎ m (agán hikavút), אגן ניקוז‎ (he) m Hindi: जलविभाजन m (jalvibhājan) Hungarian: vízgyűjtő terület (hu)

Italian: bacino idrografico m, bacino imbrifero m Japanese: 流域 (ja) (りゅういき, ryūiki) Macedonian: слив m (sliv) Norwegian: Bokmål: nedbørfelt n Nynorsk: nedbørfelt n Polish: dorzecze (pl) n Portuguese: bacia hidrográfica (pt) f Romanian: bazin de drenaj n, bazin hidrografic (ro) n Russian: бассе́йн (ru) m (basséjn) (водоёма), водосбо́р (ru) m (vodosbór), водосбо́рная пло́щадь f (vodosbórnaja plóščadʹ) Spanish: cuenca hidrográfica f, cuenca (es) f Swedish: flodområde, avrinningsområde (sv) n Vietnamese: lưu vực (vi)