(Watershed Meaning in Hindi)
1. जलविभाजक 2. जल संभर आदि जलागम/जलग्रहण क्षेत्र/अपवाह क्षेत्र नाम के साथ ही परिभाषा यह है कि किसी नदी तंत्र विशेष का आवाह क्षेत्र (catchment area) या अपवाह बेसिन।
जलागम जमीन का वह क्षेत्र जिसका पानी किसी सरिता में गिरता है ; किसी बड़ी नदी के जलागमों के अंतर्गत अनेक छोटे - छोटे जलागम शामिल हो सकते हैं जो अंतत: एक साझे बिंदु पर पहुंचकर मिल जाते हैं।
Watershed - area of land that drains to a single outlet and is separated from other watersheds by a divide.
Watershed - An area characterized by all direct runoff being conveyed to the same outlet. Similar terms include basin, drainage basin, catchment, and catch basin. A part of the surface of the earth that is occupied by a drainage system, which consists of a surface stream or a body of impounded surface water together with all tributary surface streams and bodies of impounded surface water.
Watershed: The region draining into a river, river system or body of water; the total land area, regardless of size, above a given point on a waterway that contributes runoff water to the flow at that point; all the land that serves as a drainage for a specific stream or river.