vadose zone

[ vā′dōs′ ]

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A subsurface zone of soil or rock containing fluid under pressure that is less than that of the atmosphere. Pore spaces in the vadose zone are partly filled with water and partly filled with air. The vadose zone is limited by the land surface above and by the water table below. Compare phreatic zone.

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Words nearby vadose zone

VAD, vade mecum, V. Adm., Vadodara, vadose, vadose zone, Vadsö, Vaduz, vae victis, vag, vagabond

How to use vadose zone in a sentence

Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone.
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For instance, Best Buy has over 40 million members in its customer loyalty program, Reward Zone.
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By drawing boundaries against wrongful conduct, law provides a protective zone of freedom within those boundaries.
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South Korean activists are already planning to loft them over the Demilitarized Zone in balloons.
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Among the scores of bystanders watching their small town turn into war zone was a Marine veteran who was close with Stone.
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Worst danger zone, the open sea, now traversed, but on land not yet out of the wood.
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When well stained, a delicate hyaline peripheral zone can be distinguished.
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A plaque upon a red corpuscle is surrounded by a colorless zone rather than by a distinct blue body.
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It was of a cylindrical shape, having a deep zone at the equator, and a containing capacity of about 300 feet.
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We there meet with the fruits of the torrid zone, and near them the apple and the peach of Europe.
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