de·bouch·ment

(dĭ-bouch′mənt, -bo͞osh′-)

1. The act or an instance of marching from a narrow, confined area into the open.

2. A debouchure.

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debouchment

(dɪˈbaʊtʃmənt)

1. (Military) the act or an instance of debouching

2. (Physical Geography) Also: debouchure an outlet, mouth, or opening

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(1983) that the development of the drainage network of the Ebro and its debouchment into the Mediterranean was due to some small E or SE flowing stream which had cut by headward erosion the Catalan Coastal Ranges during the low sea-level interval of the Messinian (Late Miocene), when it had increased energy/stream power.

Some considerations on the initiation of the present SE Ebro river drainage system: Post- or pre-Messinian?/Algunas reflexiones sobre el inicio del sistema de drenaje actual del SE del rio Ebro: Post- o pre-Messiniense?

The Alpheios River presents no evidence of having made a major tributary debouchment into Agoulenitsa Lagoon in the past several hundred years, although the bulbous shoreline of the Alpheios River delta, as shown in Figure 11, does suggest a broad, swinging, fanlike pattern of migrating channels throughout the historical period.

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Still, metaphor conceals: time is not a river (with identifiable source and debouchment) which is not a dragon (with a will of its own).

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