| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Bed load | Bed load is a term to describe the large particles that are carried along the bottom of a stream. (references) | ||
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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bed load | Administration | (1) Sediment particles up to rock, which slide and roll along the bottom of the streambed. (2) Material in movement along a stream bottom, or, if wind is the moving agent, along the surface. (3) The sediment that is transported in a stream by rolling, sliding, or skipping along or very close to the bed. In USGS reports, bed load is considered to consist of particles in transit from the bed to an elevation equal to the top of the bed-load sample nozzle (usually within 0.25 feet of the streambed). Contrast with material carried in Suspension or Solution. (references) | |
| Bed load | Energy | 1: Sediment that moves by rolling or sliding along the bed and is essentially in contact with the streambed in the bed layer. (references) | |
| 2: Sand, silt, gravel, or soil and rock detritus carried by a stream on or immediately above its bed. The particles of this material have a density or grain size such as to preclude movement far above or for a long distance out of contact with the stream bed under natural conditions of flow. (references) | |||
| Bed load | Environment | 1: Sediment particles resting on or near the channel bottom that are pushed or rolled along by the flow of water. (references) | |
| 2: Sediment in a stream that moves by sliding, rolling, or bounding on or near the streambed. (references) | |||
| Bed load | Forestry | Particulates that are transported along the channel bottom in the lower layers of streamflow by rolling and bouncing. (references) | |
| Bed load | Geography | Solid material carried by a stream along its bed. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Bed load | Mining | 1: See erosion, bed load. (references) | |
| 2: A body of coarse particles that move along the bottom of a stream. (references) | |||
| Bed Load Discharge | Administration | The quantity of sediment, typically measured in tons per day, that is moving as bed load, reported as dry weight, that passes a cross section in a given time. (references) | |
| Bed load exchange reach | Geography | The reach of a stream where bed load is successively supplied, deposited and removed. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Bed load transport capacity | Physics | The maximum bed load quantity per unit time that can be transported by a specific flow in a channel. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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