Contextualizebeta

serviceshed

noun

Etymology

From service + shed.

  1. derived from *skeyt-✻ — “to cut, part, divide, separate”
  2. inherited from *skaiþaną✻
  3. inherited from *skaiþan✻
  4. inherited from scēadan
  5. inherited from scheden
  6. compounded as serviceshed — “service + shed”

Definitions

  1. The geographical region that supplies ecosystem services to a beneficiary.

    • Some servicesheds overlap: the servicesheds of Farm 1 and Farm 2 fall entirely within Farm 3's serviceshed because Farm 3 takes water from further downstream.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for serviceshed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA