Usually means: Area from which water collects.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word catchment area:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. catchment area: Merriam-Webster
  2. catchment area: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catchment area: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catchment area: Collins English Dictionary
  5. catchment area: Vocabulary.com
  6. catchment area: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. catchment area: Wiktionary
  8. catchment area: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. catchment area: Dictionary.com
  10. Catchment area (disambiguation), Catchment area (human geography), Catchment area (hydrology), Catchment area: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. catchment area: Rhymezone
  12. catchment area: FreeDictionary.org
  13. catchment area: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. catchment area: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. catchment area: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catchment area: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. catchment area: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Health insurance (No longer online)
  6. catchment area: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Catchment area: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions

(Note: See catchment_areas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (catchment area)

noun:  (hydrology) An area from which water drains into a particular lake, river, etc.; the catchment area of a large river includes its tributaries.
noun:  (by extension) The area served by a local institution, such as a hospital or school, or by extension, a railway station.

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