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water parting

DEFINITIONS OF: water parting

1

n a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

Synonyms:
divide, watershed
Examples:
Great Divide
that part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States
Types:
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)
Type of:
line
a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
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