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STILLING POND

Specialty Definition: STILLING POND

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Building & Civil Engineering

A basin constructed downstream of a structure to dissipate the energy of fast flowing water and to protect the bed and banks from erosion. Source: European Union. (references)
 In torrent training, a deep depression constructed in a stream bed on the outwash fan, essentially for intercepting detritus. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: STILLING POND

Language Translations for "STILLING POND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

skidtfangsbassin (debris basin). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

sedimentatiebekken (debris basin, sedimentary basin), sedimentatiebassin (debris basin). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vaimennusallas (cistern, debris basin, stilling basin, stilling pool, water cushion). (various references)

   

French

  

bassin dissipateur (stilling basin, stilling pool), bassin de tranquillisation (stilling basin, stilling pool), bassin de sédimentation, bassin de dissipation d'énergie (stilling basin, stilling pool), bassin d'amortissement (stilling basin, stilling pool), bassin amortisseur (stilling basin, stilling pool). (various references)

   

German

  

Vorklärbecken (primary sedimentation basin), Tosbecken (cistern, stilling basin, stilling pool, water cushion), Beruhigungsbecken (stilling basin, stilling pool). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δεξαμενή καθιζήσεως (debris basin). (various references)

   

Italian

  

vasca di smorzamento (stilling basin, stilling pool), vasca di dissipazione (stilling basin, stilling pool), dissipatore (spendthrift, squanderer), bacino di smorzamento (stilling basin, stilling pool), bacino di sedimentazione (clarifier, debris basin, sedimentary basin, sedimentation basin, sedimentation tank), bacino di dissipazione (stilling basin, stilling pool). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Portuguese

  

lago de sedimentação (debris basin), bacia de sedimentação (debris basin). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

plazoleta de depósito (debris basin). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sedimentationsbassäng (debris basin). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: STILLING POND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-l-l-n-n-o-p-s-t"

-2 letters: pistolling.

-3 letters: pilotings, pistoling, spindling, splinting.

-4 letters: diplonts, nitinols, pignolis, pillions, piloting, pindling, pinitols, poinding, pointing, positing, sopiting, spilling, splining, spoiling, stilling, tolidins.

-5 letters: diglots, dinting, diplont, distill, dolling, indigos, instill, lignins, lilting, linings, lintols, lipoids, lisping, listing, nilling, nitinol, noising, nonslip, opining, pidgins, pignoli, pilings, pilling, pillion, pinions, pinitol, poising, polling, pollist, ponding.

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

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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