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Definition of Spillway
1. Noun. A channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction.
Definition of Spillway
1. n. A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.
Definition of Spillway
1. Noun. A path designed to take away overflow safely. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spillway
1. a channel for surplus water in a reservoir [n -WAYS]
Medical Definition of Spillway
1. A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spillway
Literary usage of Spillway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irrigation Practice and Engineering by Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1916)
"Effect of Diversion of Canal Flow over spillway or Through Escape on the ...
A spillway is usually designed to discharge the surplus water entering the ..."
2. Technical Reports by Miami Conservancy District (Ohio), Miami Conservancy District (Ohio (1920)
"Required: Time to fill basin to 10 feet above spillway elevation. ... Net inflow
rate while filling to spillway elevation = 4.00 — 0.58 = 3.42 inches per ..."
3. Hydro-electric Practice: : a Practical Manual of the Development of Water by Hans August Evald Conrad von Schon (1911)
"At any rate, the consideration of the height of the spillway is incomplete ...
The length of the spillway is primarily that which is required to pass the ..."
4. Principles of Irrigation Engineering: Arid Lands, Water Supply, Storage by Frederick Haynes Newell, Daniel William Murphy (1913)
"In the case of earth dams, it is particularly important to place the spillway
upon rock, or the most solid portion of the undisturbed ground protecting this ..."
5. Technical Reports by Miami Conservancy District (Ohio) (1917)
"Required: Time to fill basin to 10 feet above spillway elevation. Solution:
Average tunnel outflow rate while filling to spillway elevation =% X 0.69 = 0.58 ..."
6. Water-supply Engineering; the Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of by Amory Prescott Folwell (1899)
"spillway IN EARTH EMBANKMENT. tance into the centre of the embankment from each end
... A spillway over natural bed-rock at the head of the dam is generally ..."
7. Water-supply Engineering; the Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of by Amory Prescott Folwell (1899)
"spillway IN EARTH EMBANKMENT. tance into the centre of the embankment from each end
... A spillway over natural bed-rock at the head of the dam is generally ..."
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