A pool or other source of water that feeds a stream.

a perennial water seepage; an important type of place for original settlers in an area; hundreds of springs are named and located in the cove and escarpment areas of the Cumberland Plateau in middle Tennessee (the place names are often in the plural) particularly near shale formations; sometimes springs are improved with stonework, masonry, or piping to collect or distribute water: Keith Springs, Beersheba Springs, Tremlett Spring, Estill Spring.

A place where water comes to the surface, often the source of a river. Water from spring is often thought to be pure and have health-giving properties as it picks up minerals from the rocks that it has passed through underground. source

A stream of water that flows from underground up onto the ground's surface. A vernal pool is fed by springs.

The distance between the underside of the toe of the shoe (or last) and the ground. [Goubitz, 2001] (See also Toe Spring)

a natural flow of water from the ground, often the source of an above-ground stream.

A place where groundwater flows or seeps naturally to the surface.

The emergence of groundwater at the land surface, usually at a clearly defined point; it may flow strongly or just ooze or seep out.

A feature where water returns to the surface from an underground body of water. Also known as a 'rising'.

Area where there is a concentrated discharge of ground water that flows at the ground surface.

A vent or vents where subterranean water outflow forms a wetland.

Location where the water table seeps out at the ground surface in a more or less continuous fashion.

A surface seepage of groundwater; common in karstlands.

where water 'springs' out of the ground: often in marsh or bog areas

a natural flow of ground water

a point at which water issues forth

a body of flowing water, and its groundwater source may contain copepoda

a flow of water out of the ground

a location where ground water comes to the surface

an area on the surface of the Earth where the water table intersects the surface and water flows out of the ground

an area where groundwater has access to the land surface

a natural discharge point of subterranean water at the surface of the ground

a natural issue of water from the ground

an orifice in the earth in which the water flows from naturally

an upwelling that reveals itself at the surface

a place on the earth's surface where groundwater emerges naturally

a place where an underground stream flows out of the ground

a place where groundwater comes to the surface

a place where groundwater emerges naturally on hillsides or in hollows or valleys

a place where ground water flows naturally from rock, sediment, or soil onto the land surface

a place where groundwater naturally seeps or flows from the earth's surface

a place where the water table reaches the ground surface

a place where water comes from the ground

a point of natural, concentrated GROUNDWATER discharge from soil or rock

a point on the ground surface marked by a continuous flow of water that rises from deep in the ground

a water resource formed when the side of a hill, a valley bottom or other excavation intersects a flowing body of ground water at or below the local water table, below which the subsurface material is saturated with water

Spring whose water issues under artesian pressure generally through fractures that penetrate from the land surface through a confining bed of rock and into more permeable water-bearing rock where the water is under greater than atmospheric pressure and where the pressure in the water-bearing rock is able to lift the water to the land surface. Example: Paradise Springs, Idaho; Great Springs, Montana.

Spring where water flows to the surface from permeable material over the outcrop of less permeable or impermeable material that retards or prevents the downward percolation of the ground water and thus deflect it to the surface. These springs are commonly thermal springs and discharge at uniform rates without great seasonal fluctuation. They commonly occur along faults or other structural features such as axial fractures along the crests of anticlines.

Spring where a depression exists below local water table or phreatic surface.

Spring where water flows to the surface through relatively large openings in the rocks where the openings are joint, faults or other fractures or solution features. They are typical in igneous, volcanic, metamorphic, and granitic terrane as well as chemical sediments such as limestone, anhydrite and gypsum. Tubular springs are more typical in chemical sedimentary rock and from lava tubes in basalt flows. Example, Red Bolling Springs, Kentucky, Otter Springs, Florida; Dumanli Springs, Antalya, Turkey.

Special kind of intermittent spring in which discharge of water occurs though increase in reservoir pressure by the flashing of superheated water into steam in subterranean voids until the pressure is high enough to blow water out of the void. Examples: Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

Spring where the water flows under atmospheric pressure onto the surface. Such springs commonly emanates from the intersection of the phreatic water table with the land surface. Examples: Olancha, California

Spring where water emergent at the land surface under artesian flow upward along a fault or fracture where algal material and chemical deposition of dissolved calcium sulfate or calcium carbonate at the spring orifice rises in elevation over time as the mound of precipitate and vegetal material grows. Examples: San Ysidro Hot Springs, San Ysidro, New Mexico

A spring where water percolates from numerous small openings in permeable materials and where the discharge rate is usually low. Example: Olancha, California.

Thermal springs are divided into hot springs and warm springs. A hot spring has a water temperature in excess of 98 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Centigrade). Thermal springs owe their heat content to the natural geothermal heat created by the hot core of the earth and the decay of radioactive minerals in the lithosphere and to underground magma chambers in volcanic regions. The water is heated by deep circulation within the lithosphere prior to rising along deep faults and fractures to the land surface under artesian pressure. The maximum depth of circulation of thermal waters can be calculated from the chemistry of the emerging water. Examples: Paradise Springs, Paradise, Idaho; Jemez Hot Springs, Jemez, New Mexico.

A spring that has discharge rate that of more than 25 percent during the year. A variable spring is one in which the volume of water in net positive storage is small compared to the discharge rate and where the volume of water in net positive storage is strongly influenced to the previous period of precipitation. Example: Lehman Springs, Nevada; Kephalovrysos tis Kythreas, Cyprus; Figeh Springs, Damascus, Syria.

A spring or resurgence is the point where ground water reappears at the earth's surface and begins flowing downhill as a surface stream. The opposite of a sinking stream.

a water source which flows up freely from the ground.

A natural outflow of ground water. Many natural springs have become holy wells or spas because of the veneration of their water, often because the water was/is believed to have healing or divinatory powers.

a natural discharge of groundwater at the land's surface

The point at which the water table meets earth’s surface, causing water to flow from the ground.

The natural outflow of water from underground through a break in the land surface caused by the pressure of the groundwater. Jump to Top

The point at which ground water is naturally discharged at the earth's surface.

a place where the water table reaches the surface and water flows more or less continuously.

Any natural discharge of water from rock or soil onto the surface of the land of into a body or surface water.

The point of natural groundwater discharge to a soil surface, river, or lake.

An outflowing of ground water, possibly occurring subsurface

a place where ground water naturally comes to the surface resulting from the watertable meeting the land surface List of Glossary Terms

A surface water body created by the natural emergence of ground water to the Earth's surface. Contact Spring A spring that usually occurs where a mass of permeable rock or unconsolidated materials overlie a mass of impermeable material. Depression Spring A spring that occurs where the topography of the Earth's surface dips below the water table, thus forming marshes or small ponds. Fault Spring A spring that originates where there is a fault in the rock layer.

an area where groundwater flows naturally onto the land surface.

A location where groundwater flows naturally to the land surface or a surface water body.

A place where water seeps or bubbles from the ground.

Ground water seeping out of the earth where the water table exceeds the ground surface.

A metal device designed to reduce the transmission of shocks to the driver and passengers as the vehicle travels over uneven ground. There are many types: Cee (q.v.), elbow (q.v.), elliptic (q.v.), grasshopper, mail (q.v.), nutcracker, side, telegraph (q.v.), torsion, upright and whip.

A natural outlet from which groundwater flows up onto the ground surface.

a flow of ground water emerging naturally onto the earth's surface and used as a domestic water source within a community watershed. The watershed area of a spring is defined as the total recharge area of the spring.

groundwater seeping or flowing out of the Earth's surface; springs occur where the water table reaches the surface

Any place where ground water discharges onto the land surface due to the intersection of the water table with the ground.

A natural flow of water from underground to the earth’s surface

This is where water flows out of the ground.

An issue of water from the earth A natural fountain A source of a reservoir of water

Water with a single concentrated source that has a fast discharge rate and flows to the surface, a groundwater source site.

water that emerges from an underground source to feed streams or release freshwater directly into the ocean

place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).

A small stream of water

A place where ground water flows naturally from the earth into a body of surface water or onto the land surface, at a rate sufficient to form a current.

a natural flow of water at the earth's surface, caused by pressure on groundwater

A place where groundwater flows naturally from the soil or rock formation onto the land surface or into a body of surface water.

A spring is a point where groundwater flows out of the ground, and is thus where the aquifer surface meets the ground surface. Dependent upon the constancy of the water source (rainfall or snowmelt that infiltrates the earth), a spring may be ephemeral (intermittent) or perennial (continuous). Water issuing from an artesian spring rises to a higher elevation than the top of the confined aquifer from which it issues.

A spring that has a variability in discharge of not more than 25 percent over the course of a year. Constant springs are fed large volumes of water in net positive storage in relation to the discharge rate and are not commonly affected by annual variation in seasonal precipitation. Example: Paradise Springs, Idaho, Ayios Isidheros, Cyprus.

The season between winter and summer. It lasts from the vernal equinox to the summer solstice.

Indiana University divides the school year into two semesters: fall and spring. The spring semester generally begins in January and ends in early May. Spring also refers to one of the four seasons (divisions of the year) experienced in Indiana. Spring is comprised of the transition months of March, April, and May when the weather begins to warm and summer approaches.

The season of the year comprising the transition period from winter to summer. Meteorologcial spring includes the months of March, April and May.

The season of the year composing the transition period from winter to summer; the vernal season, during which the sun is approaching the summer solstice. In popular usage and for most meteorological purposes, spring is customarily taken to include the months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere, and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere. Except in the Tropics, spring is a season of rising temperatures and decreasing cyclonic activity over continents. In much of the Tropics, neither spring nor fall is recognizable, and in polar regions, both are very short-lived.

The season of the year which occurs as the sun approaches the summer solstice, and characterized by increasing temperatures in the mid-latitudes. Customarily, this refers to the months of March, April, and May in the North Hemisphere, and the months of September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere. Astronomically, this is the period between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice.

Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones, the transition from winter into summer. Astronomically, some Western countries consider spring to begin with the vernal equinox (around March 20 in the Northern Hemisphere, and September 23 in the Southern Hemisphere), and ends with the summer solstice (around June 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and December 21 in the Southern Hemisphere). Such conventions are by no means universal, however.

A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

A rope made fast to the cable at the bow and taken in abaft, in order to expose the ship's side to any direction.

a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed; "the spring was broken"

the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length

a flexible elastic object used to store een the atoms of an elastic material

a flexible elastic object used to store iet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who was first to publicly declare it, although it was in use since Stalin's times

a flexible elastic object used to store " "tsider from using these methods to actually transmit useful information, and therefore do not appear to allow for time travel or FTL communication

a mechanical device that absorbs energy through deflection and then expels that energy by trying to get back to it's nondeflected state

an elastic device, often a coiled wire, which regains its original shape after being compressed or extended

an elastic device that resists movement in its direction of work

an elastic, flexible object that is used to store mechanical energy

an elastic mechanical device that regains its original shape after being compressed, extended or deflected

mooring line leading at an angle of about 45 degrees off centerline of vessel; to turn a vessel with a line.

Mooring rope led aft from the bow, or forward from the stern to the quay or intervening adjacent vessel, to prevent the barge moving to and fro when moored, and to finally position the barge when mooring up. Also used to enable the bow or stern to swing clear when leaving.

A mooring rope. A back spring is led from forward aft or from aft forward.

A spring is a flexible elastic object used to store mechanical energy. Springs are usually made out of hardened steel. Small springs can be wound from pre-hardened stock, while larger ones are made from annealed steel and hardened after fabrication.

To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.

Level at which the springers (voussoirs) of an arch rise from their supports.

produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang a new haircut on his wife"

develop suddenly; "The tire sprang a leak"

produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving"

a project to create the best RTS ever (no joke)

a project to (re)create the best RTS ever

Spring (formerly known as TA Spring or Total Annihilation: Spring), is a full 3D open source RTS engine originally created by the Swedish Yankspankershttp://www.rebell.at/index.php?site=r5&cnt=artikel&id=590 http://www.rebell.at/ Interview with TA-Spring Development-Team, intended to bring the gameplay experience of Total Annihilation into three dimensions. The core game engine is released under the GPL License; however, the prepackaged mod that comes with the standard installation requires that one own a copy of TA to legally play it. There is, however, an official release which uses fully free content, and there are a number of mods, both in development and released, that are also completely free to use.

Coil that allows mountain bike suspension to move up when the bike hits a bump.

A flexible suspension member, which allows bounce travel of the suspension.

A device used to hold the vehicle up while providing a cushion against bumps or dips in the road. They can be coil, leaf or torsion bar.

The flexibility of the club shaft.

A coiled steel part built in a spiral shape to help the car absorb the bumps and roughness of the racetrack. Some of the older racetracks are really rough and bumpy. The springs are mounted within the chassis near each wheel and are used to hold up the weight of the car. The springs are an intricate part in the equation that is used to determine a racecarâ€(tm)s height. The stiffness of the spring has a lot to do with the racecars setup and handling.

A suspension component that supports the weight of the vehicle. Basic types include coil springs, leaf springs, air springs and torsion bars. Spring height affects ride height, which in turn affect wheel alignment. Weak or sagging springs should be replac

A coil of wire that returns to its original form whenever it is forced out of shape. Springs can be used to absorb shocks and are found in watches, garage doors, etc.

flexible wire coil that provides resilience and absorbs shocks.

move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"

a source of water issuing from the ground, a coiled wire that jumps back into it's original size after being depressed, an act or an instance of leaping up or forward, a quality of resilience

In brushes, the resiliency of the bristles. Good spring is valued highly in sable and Kolinsky brushes.

spring jump

a device that relates force (f) to displacement (x)

a mechanical device that recovers its shape after an outside force changes its shape and is removed

(n) A mechanical device, often in the form of a helix, that expands or contracts due to pressure or force. Springs are classified as compression, tension, extension, flat, and constant force. A spring is further classified by the material, gage, spring index, direction of the helix, and type of ends.

In geometry, a spring is a surface of revolution in the shape of a helix with thickness, generated by revolving a circle about the path of a helix. The torus is a special case of the spring obtained when the helix is crushed to a circle.

A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.

a good example of this state, it must not snap on bending, and it must return to its previous position repeatedly

An Open Source framework for developing Java applications, especially favorable to POJOs. See http://www.springframework.org/about