Well (disambiguation)
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A well is an artificial excavation, hole or structure for the purpose of withdrawing an underground resource, usually water
Well may also refer to:
Structures
- Castle well, providing a protected source of drinking water
- Oil well, a hole drilled through the Earth's surface for the purpose of extracting petroleum oil
- Salt well, or brine well, used to mine salt
- Well drainage of agricultural land by pumped wells
Other structures
- Air well (condenser), a structure or device designed to promote the condensation of atmospheric moisture
- Clootie well, a place of pilgrimage in Celtic areas
- Holy well, often pagan sacred sites that were later Christianized
- Jacob's Well, of religious significance in the West Bank
- Lightwell, in architecture, an unroofed space designed to allow sunlight to reach interior areas
- Wishing well, a term from European folklore
Places
- Well, Hampshire, England
- Well, Lincolnshire, a village in England
- Well, North Yorkshire, a village in England
- Well, Gelderland, Netherlands
- Well, Limburg, a village in the Netherlands
- Well (Chinese constellation)
Music
Science and technology
- Well, the condition of having a high level of well-being
- Well, good health
- Gravity well or gravitational, a conceptual model of the gravitational field surrounding a body in space
- Potential well, a concept used in physics related to kinetic energy
- Quantum well, a potential well with only discrete energy values
- Well, a microtiter plate, used in chemistry and biochemistry
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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