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CONFINED WATER

Specialty Definition: CONFINED WATER

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Geography

Subsurface water under sufficient pressure to cause it to rise above the bottom of some fissure or other opening in the confining bed that overlies the aquifer. Source: European Union. (references)
 Ground water limited above by an impervious formation. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: CONFINED WATER

Specialty definitions using "CONFINED WATER": artesian flowing well. (references)

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Modern Translation: CONFINED WATER

Language Translations for "CONFINED WATER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

grundvandsreservoir (aquifer, confined ground water, water-bearing formation, water-bearing media, water-bearing strata, water-bearing stratum), artesisk vand (artesian water), artesisk grundvandsreservoir (artesian aquifer, capped aquifer, confined aquifer, confined ground water). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spanningswater (confined ground water), artesisch water (artesian water, artesian waters). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

salpavesi (confined ground water, perched water, perched waters), paineellinen pohjavesi (artesian water), arteesinen pohjavesi (artesian water). (various references)

   

French

  

nappe captive (confined ground water), eau artésienne. (various references)

   

German

  

piestisches Wasser (artesian water), gespanntes Grundwasser (confined ground water, perched water, perched waters), artesisches Wasser (artesian water, artesian waters). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εγκεκλεισμένον υπόγειον ύδωρ (confined ground water), αρτεσιανόν ύδωρ (artesian water). (various references)

   

Italian

  

acqua artesiana (artesian water). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onfinedcay aterway.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

aquífero confinado (confined ground water), aquífero artesiano (artesian aquifer, capped aquifer, confined aquifer, confined ground water), água subterrânea (underground water), água artesiana (artesian water). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

capa confinada (confined ground water), agua artesiana (artesian water). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

inneslutet grundvatten (confined ground water), artesiskt vatten (artesian water). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CONFINED WATER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-f-i-n-n-o-r-t-w"

-3 letters: confidante, defecation, federation, fornicated, fractioned, interfaced, interocean, reanointed, refinanced.

-4 letters: ancienter, confidant, confident, contained, container, contender, crenation, defection, endocrine, entrained, entranced, fornicate, infarcted, infracted, interface, internode, nectarine, noncredit, ordinance, recondite, redaction, refection, refinance.

-5 letters: anecdote, anointed, anointer, anoretic, antinode, antiweed, arointed, cantered, cantoned, carotene, cartoned, catenoid, centiare, centroid, ceratoid, confider, confined, confiner, cordwain.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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