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well is an artificial excavation, hole or structure for the purpose of withdrawing an underground resource, usually water
Well may also refer to:
Structures
Castle well , providing a protected source of drinking water
Oil well , a hole drilled through the Earth's surface for the purpose of extracting petroleum oil
Salt well , or brine well, used to mine salt
Well drainage of agricultural land by pumped wells
Other structures
Air well (condenser) , a structure or device designed to promote the condensation of atmospheric moisture
Clootie well , a place of pilgrimage in Celtic areas
Holy well , often pagan sacred sites that were later Christianized
Jacob's Well , of religious significance in the West Bank
Lightwell , in architecture, an unroofed space designed to allow sunlight to reach interior areas
Wishing well , a term from European folklore
Places
Well, Hampshire , England
Well, Lincolnshire , a village in England
Well, North Yorkshire , a village in England
Well, Gelderland , Netherlands
Well, Limburg , a village in the Netherlands
Well (Chinese constellation)
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
Science and technology
Well, the condition of having a high level of
well-being
Well, good
health
Gravity well or gravitational, a conceptual model of the gravitational field surrounding a body in space
Potential well , a concept used in physics related to kinetic energy
Quantum well , a potential well with only discrete energy values
Well, a
microtiter plate , used in chemistry and biochemistry
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term