Basin

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Basin may refer to:

• Basin (chanson de geste), a poem about Charlemagne's childhood
• basin (maritime), the area of a drydock which can be flooded and drained
• basin of attraction (mathematics), an area of a nonlinear system with an attractor
• Canal basin, a docking section of canal wide enough to allow for uninterrupted canal traffic
• pudding basin, a bowl in which raw pudding dough or batter is placed for cooking
• wash basin, a sink or bowl to contain water for cleaning hands and other minor washing.
• toilet basin, an alternate name for a toilet bowl.
  • basin stand, an obsolete piece of furniture to hold a wash basin
• emesis basin, a kidney-shaped bowl used in convalescent settings

Geology and landforms

Basin may also refer to some types of geological depressions:

• Debris basin, designed to prevent damage from debris flow
• Drainage basin (hydrology), a topographic region in which all water drains to a common area
• Endorheic basin, a closed topographic low area with no drainage outlet
• Sedimentary basin (sedimentology), a low and usually sinking region that is filled with sediments from adjacent positive areas
• Structural basin (geology), rock strata formed by tectonic warping of previously flat lying strata
  • Oceanic basin, a structural basin covered by seawater
  • Pull apart basin, a section of crust separated by the action of two strike-slip faults
• tidal basin, an area that fills with water at high tide
• Tropical cyclone basins, oceans or areas of oceans used for classifying tropical cyclones
• Impact basin, a large impact crater

Place names

• Basin, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
• Basin Reserve, New Zealand, a cricket ground in Wellington
• Carpathian Basin, Central Europe
• Great Artesian Basin, Australia, an artesian source of freshwater
• Kalahari Basin, a lowland in southern Africa
• Mirador Basin, Guatemala
• Sholazar Basin, Northrend
• Montrose Basin, Scotland
• Petén Basin, Guatemala
• Arathi Basin, Arathi Highlands
• Tarim Basin (China), the endorheic basin of the Taklamakin Desert
• The Basin, New South Wales, Australia, a locality in northern Sydney
• The Basin, Victoria, Australia, a suburb in Melbourne
• Bose Basin, southern China

United States

• Badwater Basin, California, contains the lowest point in North America
• Basin, Montana
• Basin, Wyoming, seat of Big Horn County, Wyoming
• Basin, California, an unincorporated community now named Huntington Lake, California
• Basin Harbor Club, Vermont, a club and guesthouse in Addison County
• Basin Mountain (New York), a summit of the Adirondack Park
• Columbia Basin, drainage basin of the Columbia River
• Great Basin, an endorheic basin in the western United States with a small area in Mexico
• Great Basin (Maine), a cirque basin in New England
• Great Divide Basin, an endorheic basin in Wyoming
• Harney Basin, a region in southeast Oregon
• Miners Basin, Utah, a ghost town
• San Luis Closed Basin, an endorheic basin in Colorado
• San Juan Basin, a structural basin primarily in New Mexico
• the Basin, a river pothole in Franconia Notch State Park
• Tidal Basin (District of Columbia), a reservoir between the Potomac River and the Washington Channel