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Definition of Headraces
1. headrace [n] - See also: headrace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headraces
Literary usage of Headraces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. River Discharge: Prepared for the Use of Engineers and Students by John Clayton Hoyt, Nathan Clifford Grover (1916)
"Changes similar to those in irrigation canals occur also in headraces of power
canals. In tailraces the relation of stage to discharge will probably be ..."
2. Water Power Engineering: The Theory, Investigation and Development of Water by Daniel Webster Mead (1908)
"In a number of cases, where the head or fall ÌP considerable and the power
development is large, and where the cost of land for headraces would be almost or ..."
3. Water Power Engineering: The Theory, Investigation and Development of Water by Daniel Webster Mead (1908)
"In a number of cases, where the head or fall is considerable and the power
development is large, and where the cost of land for headraces would be almost or ..."
4. The Harnessing of Niagara by Cassier Magazine Co (1895)
"... by means of a system of headraces, so-called, with facilities for its discharge
at a lower level, to be utilized as the owner or lessee saw fit, ..."
5. Modern Turbine Practice, and Water-power Plants by John Wolf Thurso (1907)
"Narrow and deep headraces and tail- races are always to be preferred to wide and
shallow ones, as the loss in head is less in a deep than in a shallow race, ..."
6. Water-supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1903)
"On days when water wheels were rnn- ling at the time of the gage height observations,
the amount of water carried around the dam in headraces lias been ..."
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