AQUEDUCT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aqueduct mean? 

• AQUEDUCT (noun)
  The noun AQUEDUCT has 1 sense:

1. a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley

  Familiarity information: AQUEDUCT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AQUEDUCT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("aqueduct" is a kind of...):

conduit (a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass)

Meronyms (parts of "aqueduct"):

arch ((architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it)

 Context examples 

A diamond-shaped cavity filled with cerebrospinal fluid within the pons extending between the obex in the caudal medulla and the aqueduct of Sylvius in the cerebellum.

(Fourth Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)

Cerebrospinal fluid from the lateral ventricles flows into the third ventricle via the foramina of Monroe and exits the third ventricle via the aqueduct of Sylvius.

(Murine Third Ventricle of Brain, NCI Thesaurus)

No liquefaction was identified uphill of the aqueduct.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

Mutation of the gene is associated with hydrocephalus due to stenosis of the aqueduct of Sylvius (HSAS), mental retardation, aphasia, shuffling gait, and adducted thumbs syndrome (MASA or CRASH syndrome), spastic paraplegia 1, X-linked and agenesis of the corpus callosum, X-linked, partial and may contribute to intestinal aganglionosis in Hirschsprung disease.

(L1CAM wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Damage maps revealed widespread liquefaction below the aqueduct.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

Only land downhill from the aqueduct is irrigated; water is not pumped uphill.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

Farmers just below the aqueduct practice wet rice cultivation, in which fields are flooded at one point in the growing cycle.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

When they took a closer look, they saw that the line was an aqueduct.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)