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Basin may refer to:

Geography and geology

• Depression (geology)
  • Back-arc basin, a submarine feature associated with island arcs and subduction zones
  • 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
  • Impact basin, a large impact crater
  • Retention basin, stormwater runoff to prevent flooding and downstream erosion which includes a permanent pool of water
  • Detention basin, a man-made basin used to temporarily store surplus water from rivers.
  • 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

Objects

• Bowl, a round container
  • Pudding basin, a bowl in which raw pudding dough or batter is placed for cooking
• Emesis basin, a kidney-shaped bowl used in hospitals etc. for vomit
• Sink, a plumbing fixture
• Toilet basin, an alternate name for the bowl (pan) of a flush toilet
• 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.

Place names

Oceania

• 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

United States

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

Elsewhere

• Basin (Martian crater)
• Basin, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
• Bašin, Serbia
• Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin)

Other uses

• "Basin" (chanson de geste), a poem about Charlemagne's childhood
• Basin, the area of a dry dock which can be flooded and drained
• Basin of attraction, in 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
• Basin (horse), American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Thomas Basin (1412–1491), French bishop of Lisieux and historian
• Water resource basin, a subdivision of the U.S. hydrologic unit system

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Basin
• Basan (disambiguation)
• Basen (disambiguation)
• Bassin (disambiguation)

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