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What does surface water mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word surface water? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Water collecting on the ground or in a stream, river, lake, sea or ocean, as opposed to groundwater.
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Warm surface water is carried from the low latitudes to the higher polar latitudes as a surface current.
I remembered standing on the very tip of its bow, looking down at the surface water boiling around it.
Energy advected to and from the lake by precipitation, surface water, and ground water had little effect on evaporation rates.
If the steering becomes unresponsive the car could be aquaplaning on surface water.
The money will help to cure the flooding problem and will also ensure that the road surface water from the Carlow road will also be piped.
American lobsters have a complex life cycle that involves a 3-10 week free-swimming larval stage in surface water.

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