catchment area meaning

• Noun: catchment area  'kachmunt 'ehreeu
  1. The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
     - river basin, basin, watershed, drainage basin, catchment basin, drainage area

  Derived forms: catchment areas

  Type of: geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region

  Encyclopedia: Catchment area

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  [Architecture]
  

  Same as catch basin.

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  [Business]
  noun [C] (BrE)

  the area from which a business gets its customers, a hospital its patients, etc.

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  [Medicine]
  n : the geographical area served by an institution
  

• It has a total catchment area of 17 square kilometres
• Tree transplantation at wsd catchment area
• The sorting research of sandy land in xiaojiang catchment area of yunnan province
• In fact, most of the country parks areas are water catchment areas
• Research on the water quality amp; amp; protection measures in the key catchment area
• The reservoir had a storage capacity of 185 million gallons and a catchment area of 90 acres
• They can also charge high fees from students from outsidetheir official catchment areas
• Upper catchment area
• For catchment areas greater than gutter capacity, slotted holes can be installed
• Soil conervation-necessity for the ecological safety of shanmei reservoir of key catchment area

• "catchment area" meaning in Chinese: （学校）学生来源的区域
• "catchment area" meaning in Japanese: 集水地域、管轄区域｛かんかつ くいき｝、受け持ち区域
• "catchment area" meaning in Russian: 1) водосборная площадь; бассейн реки2) микрорайон, обслужи...