stream channel
51channel — 1) an area that contains continuously or periodically flowing water that is confined by banks and a stream bed. May be natural or artificial 2) a narrow stretch of water between adjacent land masses 3) a large strait, e.g. English Channel 4) a… …
52channel flow — run off of surface water in a defined channel as in a river or stream …
53channel — a) [ streams ] The hollow bed where a natural body of surface water flows or may flow. The deepest or central part of the bed of a stream, containing the main current and occupied more or less continuously by water. b) (colloquial:… …
54stream — a) Any body of running water that moves under gravity to progressively lower levels, in a relatively narrow but clearly defined channel on the ground surface, in a subterranean cavern, or beneath or in a glacier. It is a mixture of water and… …
55channel — n 1. stream bed, floor, bottom, depths, basin. 2. strait, neck, narrows, fiord; estuary, inlet, lagoon, cove, Naut. roads; bight, bay, gulf, sound; watercourse, waterway, canal, creek, run; water gap, flume. 3. furrow, groove, rut, chase, ditch,… …
56stream — n 1. river, freshet, U.S. Dial. kill, brook, creek, Dial. crick; streamlet, rivulet, rill, run, runnel, runlet; channel, watercourse, waterway, artificial waterway, canal, sluice, wadi, arroyo; branch, tributary, feeder, affluent, confluent;… …
57channel — The bed of a stream, with well defined banks, cut through the turf and into the soil by the flowing of water, presenting on a casual glance the evidences of the frequent action of running water, and not a mere depression. 56 Am J1st Wat § 76; the …
58Misfit stream — Gleann nan Eun meanders through the valley of the same name in the Scottish Highlands. A misfit stream (or underfit stream) is a stream that is far too small to have eroded the valley which the stream occupies. The shape of the valley may also be …
59Losing stream — A losing stream is a stream or river that loses water as it flows downstream. The water infiltrates into the ground, because the water table is below the bottom of the stream channel.This is the opposite of a gaining stream, which increases in… …
60river channel — tėkmė statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Spūdinis ar nespūdinis požeminis vanduo, tekantis iš mitybos srities į drenažo sritį hidraulinio nuolydžio kryptimi. atitikmenys: angl. flow; river bed; river channel; stream; stream… …
