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| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A collective term for all works(weirs or diversion dams, head regulators, upstream and downstream river training works and their appurtenant structures)required at intakes of main or principal canals to divert and control river flows and to regulate water supplies into the main canal or canals. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | A structure designed to divert water from the main channel. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Bayou Lamoque water diversion structure. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | This diversion structure is an integral part of an irrigation system in Lemhi County. Credit: Bob Minton. |
 | Ranchers in the Salmon Model Watershed have combined several irrigation canals into one with a permanent diversion structure and new fish screen to help restore the Salmon River to its former status as prime salmon habitat. Credit: Joel McNee. |  | Close up of permanent diversion structure and fish screen installed on the Salmon River as part of salmon recovery work in the Salmon Model Watershed. Credit: Joel McNee. |
 | Diversion structure is part of a well planned irrigation system. Credit: Ralph Swift. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "DIVERSION STRUCTURE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | reguleringsanlaeg ved kanaler (diversion work, headworks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stuw (dam), reguleringswerk (diversion work, headworks), aflaatwerk (diversion work, headworks, spillway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ohjausrakenne (control strategy, control structure, diversion work, headworks, reasoning strategy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | dérivation (diversion), ouvrages de dérivation (diversion structures, diversion work), ouvrage de dérivation (diversion weir, diversion works). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Verzweigungsbauwerk (diversion weir, diversion works), Stauanlage (barrage, diversion work, headworks), Stau (barrier effect, build up, congestion, jam, pile-up, pond, stagnation, stoppage, traffic congestion, traffic jam), Regulierungsbauwerk (diversion work, headworks), Leitwerk (control unit, diversion work, empennage, empennage assembly, headworks, instruction control unit, jetty, piled fendering, staging, tail unit, timber staging, wing), Ableitungsbauwerk (diversion weir, diversion work, diversion works, headworks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | έργα υδροληψίας (diversion structures, diversion work, headworks, intake structures), έργα εκτροπής (diversion work, headworks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | opera di derivazione (diversion weir, diversion works). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iversionday ucturestray estruturas de tomada de água (diversion structures, diversion work, headworks, intake structures), estruturas de derivação (diversion work, headworks). (various references) vattenregleringsanläggning (diversion work, headworks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-i-n-o-r-r-r-s-s-t-t-u-u-v" | |
-3 letters: resurrectionist. | |
-4 letters: overstructured. | |
-5 letters: rectitudinous, reductionists, resurrections. | |
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| 1. Synonyms 2. Images: Photo Album 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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