Basin

Basin may refer to:

Geography and geology

 * Depression (geology)
 * Back-arc basin, a submarine feature associated with island arcs and subduction zones
 * Debris basin, designed to prevent damage from debris flow
 * Drainage basin (hydrology), a topographic region in which all water drains to a common area
 * Endorheic basin, a closed topographic low area with no drainage outlet
 * Impact basin, a large impact crater
 * Retention basin, stormwater runoff to prevent flooding and downstream erosion which includes a permanent pool of water
 * Detention basin, a man-made basin used to temporarily store surplus water from rivers.
 * Sedimentary basin (sedimentology), a low and usually sinking region that is filled with sediments from adjacent higher areas
 * Structural basin, rock strata formed by tectonic warping of previously flat-lying strata
 * Oceanic basin, a structural basin covered by seawater
 * Pull-apart basin, a section of crust separated by the action of two strike-slip faults
 * Tidal basin, an area that fills with water at high tide
 * Tropical cyclone basins, oceans or areas of oceans used for classifying tropical cyclones

Objects

 * Bowl, a round container
 * Pudding basin, a bowl in which raw pudding dough or batter is placed for cooking
 * Emesis basin, a kidney-shaped bowl used in hospitals etc. for vomit
 * Sink, a plumbing fixture
 * Toilet basin, an alternate name for the bowl (pan) of a flush toilet
 * Wash basin, a sink or bowl to contain water for cleaning hands and other minor washing
 * Basin stand or washstand, an obsolete piece of furniture to hold a wash basin, jug, towel, etc.

Oceania

 * Basin Reserve, New Zealand, a cricket ground in Wellington
 * The Basin (Rottnest Island), Western Australia
 * The Basin, New South Wales, Australia, a locality in northern Sydney
 * The Basin, Victoria, Australia, a suburb in Melbourne

United States

 * Basin, Alabama
 * Basin, California, an unincorporated community now named Huntington Lake, California
 * Basin Mountain (California)
 * Basin, Mississippi
 * Basin, Montana
 * Basin, Wyoming, seat of Big Horn County
 * Basin Mountain (New York), a summit of the Adirondack Park
 * Basin Street, New Orleans, Louisiana
 * Mill Basin, Brooklyn, in New York
 * The Basin, a river pothole in Franconia Notch State Park

Elsewhere

 * Basin (Martian crater)
 * Basin, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
 * Bašin, Serbia
 * Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin)

Other uses

 * "Basin" (chanson de geste), a poem about Charlemagne's childhood
 * Basin, the area of a dry dock which can be flooded and drained
 * Basin of attraction, in mathematics, an area of a nonlinear system with an attractor
 * Canal basin, a docking section of canal wide enough to allow for uninterrupted canal traffic
 * Basin (horse), American Thoroughbred racehorse
 * Thomas Basin (1412–1491), French bishop of Lisieux and historian
 * Water resource basin, a subdivision of the U.S. hydrologic unit system