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71Mill Creek (Lake Erie) — Coordinates: 42°8′37″N 80°4′49″W / 42.14361°N 80.08028°W / 42.14361; 80.08028 …
72Oedometer test — Incremental Loading frame developed by Bishop An oedometer test is a kind of geotechnical investigation performed in geotechnical engineering that measures a soil s consolidation properties. Oedometer tests are performed by applying different… …
73complete well penetration, fully penetrating — 1. The property of a well that penetrates an aquifer completely from the upper confining bed or water table to the lower confining bed [16]. 2. A well that is completed over the whole thickness of the aquifer to allow radial production over …
74geohydrologic unit — An aquifer, a confining unit or a combination of aquifers and confining units comprising a framework for a reasonably distinct geohydrologic system [22] …
75ground water — , phreatic water 1. The part of the subsurface water that is in the phreatic zone [10]. Its lower limits are the zone of rock flowage or the lowest fully confining bed; its upper limits are the uppermost fully confining bed or the water… …
76ground water, confined — Ground water under pressure significantly greater than atmospheric and whose upper limit is the bottom of a confining unit [22]. See also confined; confining unit; confined aquifer …
77restrictive — (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Contrary] Syn. prohibitory, prohibitive, confining; see confining , opposed . 2. [Provisional] Syn. definitive, limiting, qualificatory; see conditional …
78withholding — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. restraining, confining, checking, prohibiting, restricting, hindering, limiting, deterring, coercive, curbing, muzzling, bridling; see also confining . Ant. open*, liberating, freeing …
79straitjacket — n. confining jacket with long sleeves used to restrain potentially violent patients or prisoners (also straightjacket)n. confining jacket with long sleeves used to restrain potentially violent patients or prisoners …
80pound — I [[t]paʊnd[/t]] v. t. 1) to strike repeatedly with great force, as with an instrument, the fist, heavy missiles, etc 2) to produce or effect by or as if by striking or thumping (often fol. by out) 3) to force (a way) by battering; batter (often… …
