A water rise takes place on down stream of sloping glacis, when a stream of water moving with high velocity and low depth strikes another stream of flow moving with low velocity and high depth, such breakage in water surface is called______________?

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Hydraulic jump. The described phenomenon of high-velocity, low-depth flow striking low-velocity, high-depth flow on a sloping glacis is the standard definition of a hydraulic jump in fluid mechanics and irrigation engineering.