Catchment

Quick meaning: Catchment is a noun meaning (often attributive) Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water.

Meaning

(often attributive) Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water.

More Meanings

1. A catchment area, or the people it serves.
2. To divide into catchment areas.

Example Sentences

The catchment area is the slope of a great mountain range covered with fine forests, and there are many good reservoir sites.

Do you think that there ought to be some board or some authority for each catchment basin, which must be appointed with adequate powers to prevent the pollution of streams?

Every mountain in Petra has carved water channels in the indigenous stone that catch the seasonal erosion floods. Every building seems to be positioned to maximize water catchment.

The Hospital Plan first set out the objective: a network of large district general hospitals, each providing specialised medical and surgical facilities for a catchment of 200,000 to 300,000 population[…].

Word Forms

• catchments
• catchmenting
• catchmented

Related Words

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