Usually means: Depressions collecting water or sediment.
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  1. basins: Merriam-Webster
  2. basins: Collins English Dictionary
  3. basins: Vocabulary.com
  4. Basin's, Basins, basin's, basins: Wordnik
  5. basins: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. basins: Wiktionary
  7. basins: Dictionary.com
  8. basins: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Basins: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Basins: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. basins: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Basins: Medical dictionary

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  1. BASINS: Acronym Finder

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BASINS: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Basin)

noun:  A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
noun:  (obsolete) A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
noun:  A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
noun:  (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
noun:  (geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
verb:  To create a concavity or depression in.
verb:  To serve as or become a basin.
verb:  To shelter or enclose in a basin.
noun:  A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Montana
noun:  A town, the county seat of Big Horn County, Wyoming
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