WATER TABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water table mean? 

• WATER TABLE (noun)
  The noun WATER TABLE has 1 sense:

1. underground surface below which the ground is wholly saturated with water

  Familiarity information: WATER TABLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER TABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Underground surface below which the ground is wholly saturated with water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

groundwater level; water level; water table

Context example:

spring rains had raised the water table

Hypernyms ("water table" is a kind of...):

formation; geological formation ((geology) the geological features of the earth)

 Context examples 

Farther downhill, farmers grow coconut palms, which require less irrigation and don't raise the water table as much.

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

This predominant method of rice farming in tropical Asia raises the water table over time to just below the ground surface.

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

Researchers had thought flat terrain was a prerequisite because the water table - the distance below ground where the soil becomes saturated with water - must be shallow, and that's rare on a hillside.

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