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n. a distributary of the Rhine in Western Europe that runs through the Netherlands
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The Waal or Rivier Waal ("Waal River") is the main distributary branch of river Rhine flowing through the Netherlands. Approximately , it is the major waterway connecting the port of Rotterdam to Germany. Before it reaches Rotterdam, it joins with the Afgedamde Maas near Woudrichem to form the Boven Merwede. Along its length, Nijmegen, Tiel, Zaltbommel and Gorinchem are towns of importance with direct access to the river.
The river, which is the main channel in the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta system, carries 65% of the total flow of the Rhine.
Waal may refer to:
- Waal, Bavaria, a town in Germany
- Waal, South Holland, a hamlet in the Dutch province of South Holland
- Waal (river), a Rhine distributary in the Netherlands
- WAAL, a classic rock FM radio station licensed to Binghamton, New York
- Waaltje, a dammed river in the Netherlands
Usage examples of "waal".
He chuckled again and spent the next few minutes drawing a diagram of the gecko setae and explaining the van der Waals attraction.
Waal and Maas, known as the Bommel Waat, and a fresh attempt at invasion by the Spaniards was repulsed with heavy loss, Sir Francis Vere and the English troops taking a leading part in the operations.
They were to seize crossings over the great Maas and Waal rivers, in particular the huge multispan bridge at Nijmegen, which, with its approaches, was almost a half-mile long.
Then Brigadier Zuitz showed us into the office of Inspector Van Der Waal, a great huge woman with old-fashioned contact lenses making her eyes bulge out with sympathy.
The active molecules used weak interactions—hydrogen bonding, van der Waals forces and hydrophobic recognition—to assemble themselves into a three-dimensional structure, supramolecular arrays thousands of molecules long.
On the mediatron, the subassembly drifted away from the main group under its own momentum, then slowed, stopped, and began to fall back toward it, drawn in by weak van den Waals forces.