Usually means: Area collecting water for drainage.
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  1. catchment: Merriam-Webster
  2. catchment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catchment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. catchment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. catchment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  11. Catchment, catchment: Dictionary.com
  12. Catchment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  19. catchment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

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Definitions from Wiktionary (catchment)

▸ noun:  (often attributive) Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water.
▸ noun:  A catchment area, or the people it serves.
▸ verb:  To divide into catchment areas.

Similar:
encatchment, catch, impoundment, fang, capture, captative, collection, garnerage, trapping, accretion, more...

Opposite:
outflow, discharge, effluent, runoff

Types:
basin, watershed, catchment area, drainage basin, catch basin, more...

Phrases:
catchment area, catchment areas, water catchment, catchment basin, catchment basins, more...

Adjectives:
small, upper, sub, whole, entire, forested, large, lower, urban, total, agricultural

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Similar:
encatchment, catch, impoundment, fang, capture, captative, collection, garnerage, trapping, accretion, more...

Opposite:
outflow, discharge, effluent, runoff

Types:
basin, watershed, catchment area, drainage basin, catch basin, more...

Phrases:
catchment area, catchment areas, water catchment, catchment basin, catchment basins, catchment board, site catchment analysis, Two-step floating catchment area method, Western Water Catchment, more...

Adjectives:
small, upper, sub, whole, entire, forested, large, lower, urban, total, agricultural

Colors:
    blue,     green,     turquoise,     aqua,     teal, more...



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