| 单词 | catchment area |
| 释义 | catchment area (once / 144138 pages) n WORD FAMILY catchment area: catchment areas USAGE EXAMPLESQuicker journeys will increase the catchment area for job-seekers prepared to travel to work. Economist(Sep 29, 2016) "We are already implementing many of the suggestions this report makes, such as managing watercourses across entire catchment areas." BBC(Nov 01, 2016) The Jakobshavn’s catchment area is smaller than the NEGIS’s; still, there’s enough ice in it to raise global sea levels by two feet. The New Yorker(Oct 17, 2016) n the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet Syn|Hypo|Hyper basin, catchment basin, drainage area, drainage basin, river basin, watershed detention basin a storage site (such as a small reservoir) that delays the flow of water downstream retention basina storage site similar to a detention basin but the water in storage is permanently obstructed from flowing downstream geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region a demarcated area of the Earth |
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