Remarks on hydrologic terminology

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When a science is advancing rapidly, as is hydrology today, especially when it is changing from an adolescent or qualitative to an adult or quantitative basis, new terms are needed in particular for the following two purposes: (1) To give expression to new ideas and concepts; (2) to give more definite, specific, quantitative meaning to terms and concepts heretofore chiefly qualitative. The terminology of a growing science is in some respects like the scaffolding of a building or like the false‐work of an arch. If the building or arch is enlarged and the plans changed as the work proceeds, the scaffolding or false‐work must also be adapted to the new conditions.

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