Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The scientific study of the properties, distribution, and effects of water on the earth's surface, in the soil and underlying rocks, and in the atmosphere.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of water, its properties, phenomena, and laws, its distribution over the earth's surface, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. The science of the properties, distribution, and effects of water on a planet's surface, in the soil and underlying rocks, and in the atmosphere
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The science of water, its properties, phenomena, and distribution over the earth's surface.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the branch of geology that studies water on the earth and in the atmosphere: its distribution and uses and conservation
Etymologies
- hydro- + -ology (Wiktionary)
Examples
“So instead of being buried in concrete, excised from the daily life of the city and only experienced by municipal workers, urban hydrology is visibly, even prominently, incorporated into the surface fabric of the city.”
“For a Chicago-based blog with an extraordinarily abnormal interest in hydrology, hydroengineering and hydropolitics, this is downright criminally negligent.”
“I also asked him about my theory that site effects depend mostly on hydrology, which is what we are finding here at Fox Run (water-retentive soils make better grapes in dry years, while well-drained soils make better wine in wet years – keep in mind that these are non irrigated vineyards).”
“Other than that, he's taken some post-graduate courses in hydrology.”
“Snyder said the corps is updating two components for its analysis: hydrology, which is the amount of water at each location, and hydraulics, which is how water moves through the river system.”
“The AGU hydrology group has over 6,000 members who call hydrology their primary field.”
“In science terms, there is a cycle called the hydrology cycle, and this cycle tells the story of natural water.”
“Let's step outside the sciences of biology and hydrology which is, not the science of geological strata -- that would be geomorphology -- but the science of the behavior of water at the earth's surface.”
“The term "hydrology" arrived in its current meaning around 1750, and by 1800 the work of English physicist and chemist groundwater flow had confounded scientists and created barriers to understanding the”
“The project as proposed by the Northern Colorado Water Conservation District requires additional analysis in areas such as hydrology modeling, water quality, vegetation and aquatic resources, said Col. David Press, commander of the Corps 'Omaha District.”
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Mirrored Vowels
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Greek Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Geology Words
The descriptive science described.
earth, lithosphere, mineral, convection, heat flow, ore, deep time, fossil, formation, rock, tectonics, extinction and 284 more...
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I Don't Get It
Concepts many people just can't understand, no matter how hard they try.
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words about water
words about forms of water, places of water, movements of water.
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