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Definition of Cusec
1. Noun. a measure of the rate of flow of fluid, especially through a pipeline, equal to one cubic foot per second ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cusec
1. a volumetric unit of flow of liquids [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cusec
Literary usage of Cusec
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Control of Water as Applied to Irrigation, Power and Town Water Supply by Philip à Morley Parker (1913)
"The usual duties in this locality (Egyptian Delta) are 113 acres per cusec for
cotton and dry crops, and 63 acres per cusec for rice. ..."
2. Notes on Irrigation Works: A Course of Lectures Delivered at Oxford Under by Nicol Finlayson Mackenzie (1910)
"But in order to deliver that cusec on to the field two cusecs must be taken in
at the canal head, so that for wheat the canal head duty of one cusec is 100 ..."
3. Facts, Figures, and Fomulæ for Irrigation Engineers by Robert Burton Buckley (1908)
"In Lorca the extraordinary duty of 1038 acres per cusec is said to be obtained,
and Mr. Higgin adds, that in this last case the annual value of a cubic foot ..."
4. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales by Royal Society of New South Wales (1901)
"The amount of this estimate, which allowed amply for contingencies, was £650000,
or £650 per cusec, so that reckoning interest at 4 per cent., the interest ..."
5. Coping With Catastrophe: Building an Emergency Management System to Meet by Gary L. Wamsley (1993)
"Since 1983, FEMA has provided funding to cusec via a cooperative agreement. ...
cusec is involved in all aspects of earthquake planning, but does not have ..."
6. Hydropolitics along the Jordan River; Scarce Water and Its Impact on the by Aaron T. Wolf (1995)
"The barrage would reportedly divert 40000 cubic feet per second (cusec)5 out of
a dry season average flow of 50000 cusec from the Ganges into the ..."
7. Groundwater Markets in Pakistan: Participation and Productivity by Ruth Meinzen-Dick (1996)
"Smaller-capacity tubewells with 5 to 10 horsepower engines, delivering flows of
less than a cusec (cubic foot per second), are widely used in India and ..."
8. Mining Tables: Being a Comparison of the Units of Weight, Measure, Currency by Frederick Henry Hatch, E. J. Vallentine (1907)
"This is termed an 'irrigating duty' of 285 acres per cusec, which means that one
cubic foot of water per second has to irrigate 285 acres. ..."
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