catchment

/kach-muhnt/US // ˈkætʃ mənt //UK // (ˈkætʃmənt) //

集水区,流域,集水,汇水

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the act of catching water.
- : something for catching water, as a reservoir or basin.
- : the water that is caught in such a catchment.

During the growing season in spring and summer, there is almost no rain, so he draws from a water catchment pond, where he stores it from the wet through dry season.
These people simply squat down wherever they can find a natural catchment for water.
The men nearest would arrange catchment areas of plates and flower bowls.
He was off to see to another of his father's interests—that "catchment area" far away up in the mountains.
The noblest and most-varied scenery in the north-west Himalaya is in the catchment area of the Jhelam.
The Sutle; has a course of 900 miles, and a large catchment area in the hills.