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  1. tailwater: Merriam-Webster
  2. tailwater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tailwater: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tailwater: Wordnik
  5. tailwater: Wiktionary
  6. tailwater: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. tailwater: Dictionary.com
  8. Tailwater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tailwater)

▸ noun:  The water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert.

Similar:
tributary, subwatershed, upstream, understream, lakehead, interbasin, backdam, groundwater, underwater, mainstem, more...

Opposite:
headwater, source, upstream

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Similar:
tributary, subwatershed, upstream, understream, lakehead, interbasin, backdam, groundwater, underwater, mainstem, more...

Opposite:
headwater, source, upstream



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