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Definition of River basin
1. Noun. The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet. "Flood control in the Missouri basin"
Specialized synonyms: Detention Basin, Retention Basin
Generic synonyms: Geographic Area, Geographic Region, Geographical Area, Geographical Region
Definition of River basin
1. Noun. (geography) An extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a river or series of rivers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of River Basin
Literary usage of River basin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Environmental Performance Reviews by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Committee on Environmental Policy (2006)
"Box 2.4 Compensation payments in river basin management The titles of each of
all four river basin laws adopted between 1999 and 2002 for the Han, Geum, ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1913)
"The west bank is divided into four great basins,—the St. Francis basin, which
extends from Cape Girardeau to Helena; the White river basin, which extends ..."
3. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association (1902)
"... OF THE CATAWBA river basin BY ALBERT S. GATSCHET The Indian geographic names
of the South Atlantic states are of great interest. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The size of the largest river basin of any country depends on the extent of the
... The proportion, moreover, of the rain falling or. a river basin which ..."
5. Bulletin by Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (1905)
"... the conditions necessary for the accumulation of strata in which variations
of composition, texture, and structure are so common. THE GREEN river basin, ..."
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