ba·sin (b  s n)n. 1. a. An open, shallow, usually round container used especially for holding liquids. b. The amount that such a vessel can hold. 2. A washbowl; a sink. 3. a. An artificially enclosed area of a river or harbor designed so that the water level remains unaffected by tidal changes. b. A small enclosed or partly enclosed body of water. 4. A region drained by a single river system: the Amazon basin. 5. Geology a. A broad tract of land in which the rock strata are tilted toward a common center. b. A large, bowl-shaped depression in the surface of the land or ocean floor. [Middle English, from Old French bacin, from Vulgar Latin *bacc  num, from *baccus, container, of Celtic origin.]ba sin·al adj.ba sined (-snd) adj. |
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| Adj. | 1. | basinal - of or relating to a basin; "basinal deposits" |
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