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floor: [geomorphology] (a) (not preferred; refer to basin floor, valley floor). A general term for the nearly level, lower part of a basin or valley; (b) The bed of any body of water; e.g., the nearly level surface beneath the water of a stream, lake, or ocean ( Jackson, 1997).