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* [[Basin, Masovian Voivodeship]], Poland |
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* [[Basin Reserve]], New Zealand, a cricket ground in Wellington |
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* [[Carpathian Basin]], Central Europe |
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* [[Great Artesian Basin]], Australia, an artesian source of freshwater |
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* [[Kalahari Basin]], a lowland in southern Africa |
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* [[Mirador Basin]], Guatemala |
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* [[Sholazar Basin]], Northrend |
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* [[Montrose Basin]], Scotland |
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* [[Petén Basin]], Guatemala |
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* [[Arathi Basin]], Arathi Highlands |
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* [[Tarim Basin]] (China), the endorheic basin of the Taklamakin Desert |
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* [[The Basin, New South Wales]], Australia, a locality in northern Sydney |
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* [[The Basin, Victoria]], Australia, a suburb in Melbourne |
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* [[Bose Basin]], southern China |
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* [[Badwater Basin]], [[California]], encompasses the lowest point in North America |
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* [[Basin, Montana]] |
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* [[Basin, Wyoming]], seat of Big Horn County, Wyoming |
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* ''Basin, California'', an unincorporated community now named [[Huntington Lake, California]] |
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* [[Basin Harbor Club]], Vermont, a club and guesthouse in Addison County |
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* [[Basin Mountain (New York)]], a summit of the Adirondack Park |
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* [[Columbia Basin]], drainage basin of the Columbia River |
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* [[Great Basin]], an endorheic basin in the western United States with a small area in Mexico |
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* [[Great Basin (Maine)]], a cirque basin in New England |
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* [[Great Divide Basin]], an endorheic basin in Wyoming |
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* [[Harney Basin]], a region in southeast Oregon |
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* [[Miners Basin, Utah]], a ghost town |
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* [[San Luis Closed Basin]], an endorheic basin in Colorado |
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* [[San Juan Basin]], a structural basin primarily in New Mexico |
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* ''the Basin'', a river pothole in [[Franconia Notch State Park]] |
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* [[Tidal Basin (District of Columbia)]], a reservoir between the Potomac River and the Washington Channel |
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Revision as of 20:13, 5 November 2015
Look up basin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Basin may refer to:
- Basin, a 5th century Thuringian king
- Basin (chanson de geste), a poem about Charlemagne's childhood
- basin (maritime), the area of a drydock which can be flooded and drained
- basin of attraction (mathematics), an area of a nonlinear system with an attractor
- Canal basin, a docking section of canal wide enough to allow for uninterrupted canal traffic
- pudding basin, a bowl in which raw pudding dough or batter is placed for cooking
- wash basin, a sink or bowl to contain water for cleaning hands and other minor washing.
- toilet basin, an alternate name for a toilet bowl.
- basin stand, an obsolete piece of furniture to hold a wash basin
- emesis basin, a kidney-shaped bowl used in convalescent settings
Geology and landforms
Basin may also refer to some types of geological depressions:
- Debris basin, designed to prevent damage from debris flow
- Drainage basin (hydrology), a topographic region in which all water drains to a common area
- Endorheic basin, a closed topographic low area with no drainage outlet
- Sedimentary basin (sedimentology), a low and usually sinking region that is filled with sediments from adjacent positive areas
- Structural basin (geology), rock strata formed by tectonic warping of previously flat lying strata
- Oceanic basin, a structural basin covered by seawater
- Pull apart basin, a section of crust separated by the action of two strike-slip faults
- tidal basin, an area that fills with water at high tide
- Tropical cyclone basins, oceans or areas of oceans used for classifying tropical cyclones
- Impact basin, a large impact crater
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