Artesian Definition

adjective

(of a water supply) Rising to the surface under its own hydrostatic pressure.

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Antonyms:
  • subartesian

Origin of Artesian

  • From French puits artésien (“artesian well”), from the former province of Artois where the technique of artesian wells was elaborated by the monks in the 12th century. The place name is from Old French Arteis, from Atrebates, a pre-Roman Gallo-Germanic tribe in northwestern Gaul, from Proto-Celtic *ad-treb-a-t-es (“inhabitants”), from *treb (“home, building”), see also Middle Breton treff (“city”), Welsh tref (“town”) and Old Irish treb (“farm, building”), all from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“settlement”) (same source as Old English þorp (“village”), Lithuanian troba (“house”), and Provencal trevar (“to live in a village or house”)). See also Old Irish aittrebaid (“inhabitant”).

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Artesian Sentence Examples

  • It was the first of the deep artesian wells of the continent.

  • The water supply is from artesian wells.

  • The city water supply, owned by a private corporation, is obtained from artesian wells with a capacity of 40,000,000 gallons a day.

  • Besides these there are II public and 1375 private artesian wells in the city.

  • The municipality owns the water-works, the water-supply being obtained from artesian wells.

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Words Starting With A and Ending With N

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