Usually means: Maximum water soil can hold.
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  2. field capacity: Canadian Soil Information System
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  5. Field capacity: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions
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▸ noun:  The amount of water content retained in soil after excess water has drained away and the rate of downward movement has decreased.

Similar:
soil physics, surface runoff, Specific storage, Potential evaporation, Soil consolidation, Bearing capacity, storativity, Groundwater recharge, evapotranspiration, irrigation, more...

Phrases:
field moisture capacity, more...

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Similar:
soil physics, surface runoff, Specific storage, Potential evaporation, Soil consolidation, Bearing capacity, storativity, Groundwater recharge, evapotranspiration, irrigation, more...

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field moisture capacity, more...



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