watershed
Noun
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is a type of: line - a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extentsubtypes: continental divide - the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico)specific instances: great divide - that part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United Statessame as: divide, water parting
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is a type of: geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region - a demarcated area of the Earthsubtypes:
- detention basin - a storage site (such as a small reservoir) that delays the flow of water downstream
- retention basin - a storage site similar to a detention basin but the water in storage is permanently obstructed from flowing downstream
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subtypes:
- fall of man - (Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death
- road to damascus - a sudden turning point in a person's life (similar to the sudden conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus of arrest Christians)
same as: landmark, turning point
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