Crossword clues for catchment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Catchment \Catch"ment\, n. A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1844, from catch (v.) + -ment.
Wiktionary
n. any structure or land feature which catches and holds water
WordNet
n. a structure in which water is collected
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "catchment".
From a catchment area that spans much of central Europe, the knives, the scissors, and the surgical instruments are gathered here in Solingen and turned into steel.
The aeries have their catchment areas, inward-sloping skins on all levels, channelling rain water into great barrels with overflow systems into other barrels.
The west held neat patches of various crops, each patch sitting in its own catchment basin.
The Dorset County racecourse, sin of sins, was outside the Hoopwestern catchment area.
There was a good thick catchment of gravel in the gullies between the reefs.
Dublin bar or at head of water at Poulaphouca or Powerscourt or catchment basins of main streams for the economic production of 500,000 W.
England's hacker circuit had illegal catchment programs loaded into every exchange in the country.
But every English Telecom exchange computer in the country had been infiltrated with a catchment program that would 'slot the caller directly into the circuit.
Never, not once, in all the years they were in power, did the PSP manage to tap the Gracious Services circuit, nor expunge the catchment program from Telecom's exchange computers.
Many years ago we built a water catchment in a ravine outside the village, to trap runoff for our cattle, and we hid in there during the bombing.
In the distance she'd heard the ululating wail of several ambulances and knew that there must have been a nasty accident somewhere in the catchment area of St.
Meanwhile, the flood catchment area formed by the long contour bunds was converted into a vast and productive rice paddy.
No other shrubs grow near these catchments where the vines do their work.
On a fifty-fifty basis with tens of thousands of farmers, we've also built thousands of small plastic-lined, plastic-covered catchments to minimize winter-rain runoff.
The city has sophisticated snow-removal equipment, heating cables buried in the streets, sanitation trucks with melt-tanks, an armada of scoops and catchments and scrapers and skimmers, but no gadgetry could cope with a season that dropped ten centimetres of snow on Wednesday, a dozen more on Friday, fifteen on Monday, half a metre on Saturday.