Basin
Definition of Basin
Ba´sin | n. | 1. | | | 1. | A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses. | | 2. | The quantity contained in a basin. | | 3. | A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc. | | 4. | A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay. | | 5. | (Physical Geog.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river. | | 6. | (Geol.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; - especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields. |
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Basis
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