aqueduct

IPA: ˈækwʌdʌkt

An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.
A structure carrying water over a river or depression, especially in regards to ancient aqueducts.
(anatomy) A structure conveying fluid, such as the cerebral aqueduct or vestibular aqueduct.

Examples of "aqueduct" in Sentences

This easy hike takes about four hours and walking on the aqueduct is interesting.
The aqueduct is dry now, having long ago been replaced with a more modern water system with higher capacity.
(Isa 7: 17-25; Isa 8: 6-8), be utterly destroyed (Isa 10: 21, 22). conduit -- an aqueduct from the pool or reservoir for the supply of the city.
Among the ideas: a new binational aqueduct from the Colorado River, co-financed by water-short San Diego County; desalination plants; a series of wells.
Blockage at the aqueduct is assumed when the lateral and third ventricles are enlarged proximal to the obstruction, and the fourth ventricle is relatively small.
This aqueduct is a narrow canal in the center of the brain through which CSF moves between the third and fourth ventricle (chambers in the brain that produce and store CSF).
Parts of the Via Appia Antica are closed to traffic on Sundays, and the stretch running south from the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, lined with crumbling graves and tall umbrella pines, and parallel to an aqueduct, is one of the finer archaeological walks in the world.