water tunnel

"Water tunnels" are essential for transporting water and testing hydrodynamic behaviors in various engineering and scientific applications.

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Definition

(technical)A passage built to transport water, often used for irrigation, drinking water supply, or drainage.

The city constructed a new water tunnel to improve its drinking water supply system.

(technical, scientific)A facility where the flow of water is controlled to test the hydrodynamic properties of submerged objects.

Researchers used a water tunnel to measure the drag on a scale model of a submarine.

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