Basin

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Basin may refer to:

Video Basin

Objects

• Sink, a plumbing fixture
• Bowl, a round container
  • 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
  • Basin stand or washstand, an obsolete piece of furniture to hold a wash basin, jug, towel, etc.
• Emesis basin, a kidney-shaped bowl used in hospitals etc for vomit
• Toilet basin, an alternate name for the bowl (pan) of a flush toilet

Maps Basin

Geology and landforms

• Depression (geology)
  • 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 higher areas
  • Structural basin, 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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Place names

• Basin, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
• Basin Reserve, New Zealand, a cricket ground in Wellington
• The Basin (Rottnest Island), Western Australia
• The Basin, New South Wales, Australia, a locality in northern Sydney
• The Basin, Victoria, Australia, a suburb in Melbourne
• Basin (Martian crater)

United States

• Basin, Alabama
• Basin, Mississippi
• Basin, Montana
• Basin, Wyoming, seat of Big Horn County
• Basin, California, an unincorporated community now named Huntington Lake, California
• Basin Mountain (New York), a summit of the Adirondack Park
• The Basin, a river pothole in Franconia Notch State Park
• Basin Street, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Other uses

• Basin (chanson de geste), a poem about Charlemagne's childhood
• Basin of attraction, in mathematics, an area of a nonlinear system with an attractor
• Basin, the area of a dry dock which can be flooded and drained
• Canal basin, a docking section of canal wide enough to allow for uninterrupted canal traffic
• Thomas Basin (1412-1491), French bishop of Lisieux and historian

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See also

• All pages beginning with "Basin"
• Bassin (disambiguation)

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