catchment basin

Questions about catchment basin

What does catchment basin mean?

catchment basin means "the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet".

What is another word for catchment basin?

Close synonyms include river basin, basin, watershed, drainage basin, catchment area. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is catchment basin a common word?

catchment basin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.