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Basin may mean:
- Drainage basin, hydrological basin or catchment basin, a region of land where water drains downhill into a specified body of water
- Tarim Basin, located in Xinjiang, China and is one of the largest drainage basins in the world.
- Sedimentary basin, low and usually sinking region that is filled with sediments from adjacent positive areas
- Structural basin, in geology, referring to the basin-shaped warping of underlying bedrock in a region
- Depression (geology), landform lower than the surrounding area, such as the Kalahari Basin
- Oceanic basin, anywhere on Earth that is covered by seawater
- A downdropped fault block, or graben, which fill with sediments
- Wash basin, a bowl (vessel) designed to contain water for the purpose of cleaning hands and other minor ablutions; see also sink
- Pudding basin, a kitchen utensil of a rounded internal form and wider at its open top
- Basin, or dock, used for the reception of boats, in which the water level is maintained:
- Basin of attraction, in the mathematics of nonlinear systems
- Basin (chanson de geste), chanson de geste (epic poem) about a thief of the same name
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