bankfull
bankfull adjective: risen to a height just sufficient to spill over its banks into the floodplain.
Adjective
bankfull (not comparable)
- Risen to a height just sufficient to spill over its banks into the floodplain.
- Because these bars are typically much longer than their migrating counterparts (up to 20 times bankfull width), morphodynamic influence can affect bank erosion and planform evolution at relatively great distances from the disturbance location […]2012, Michael Church, Pascale Biron, Andre Roy, Gravel Bed Rivers: Processes, Tools, Environments, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
- The increased volume of runoff results in an increase in the frequency of bankfull or near-bankfull flow conditions in stream channels.2012, Thomas H. Cahill, Low Impact Development and Sustainable Stormwater Management, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 106
Origin of bankfull
From bank + full.
Questions about bankfull
- What does bankfull mean?
- Bankfull means risen to a height just sufficient to spill over its banks into the floodplain.
- What part of speech is bankfull?
- Bankfull is an adjective.
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