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Definition of Leakage

1. Noun. The discharge of a fluid from some container. "He had to clean up the leak"

Definition of Leakage

1. n. A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.

2. n. A leak; also; the quantity of electricity thus wasted.

Definition of Leakage

1. Noun. an act of leaking, or something that leaks ¹

2. Noun. the amount lost due to a leak ¹

3. Noun. an undesirable flow of electric current through insulation ¹

4. Noun. loss of retail stock, especially due to theft ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Leakage

1. the act or an instance of leaking [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leakage

Literary usage of Leakage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Electrical Engineering: The Theory and Characteristics of Electrical by Clarence Victor Christie (1917)
"Slot leakage flux and tooth-tip leakage flux. path is minimum and L and x are large, ... leakage Fluxes.—The leakage fluxes of armature reactance may be ..."

2. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1922)
"With the leakage, an increase of 1200 at is not sufficient, ... Then the mmf across the leakage paths is proportional to the excitation on the lower cores. ..."

3. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The information with reference to leakage of reservoirs is rather meagre, ... Percentage leakage based on a daily flow of 4500000 gallons of water through ..."

4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1902)
"On the leakage of Electricity through dust-free air. By CT R WILSON, MA, ... To eliminate any uncertainty due to leakage through the insulating supports, ..."

5. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1910)
"leakage of Steam. — The loss due to leakage is a variable factor depending ... With the engines at rest they found that the leakage past valves and piston ..."

6. Principles and Practice of Electrical Engineering by Alexander Gray (1917)
"leakage Reactance in Standard Transformers and in Induction Furnaces. — In power transformers, the leakage reactances Primary Primary Secondary AB FiG. 310. ..."

7. Principles of Alternating Current Machinery by Ralph Restieaux Lawrence (1920)
"The primary leakage flux is that part of the total primary flux which does not link with ... The leakage fluxes of the primary and secondary windings of a ..."

8. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1908)
"The ability of an alternator to hold up its voltage on loads of low power factor depends very largely on the field leakage. The greater part of the flux set ..."

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