stilling basin

noun

variants or stilling box or stilling pool or stilling well

: a depression in a channel or reservoir deep enough to reduce the velocity or turbulence of the flow

called also still box

compare orifice box

Word History

Etymology

stilling from gerund of still entry 2

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