Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Water table. The water table is the surface where the water pressure head is equal to the atmospheric pressure. It may be conveniently visualized as the surface of the subsurface materials that are saturated with groundwater in a given vicinity.
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Geotechnical engineering is important in civil engineering, but also has applications in military, mining, petroleum and other engineering disciplines that are concerned with construction occurring on the surface or within the ground.ffshore (or marine) geotechnical engineering is concerned with foundation design for human-made structures in the sea, away from the coastline (in opposition to onshore or nearshore).