leakage
IPA: ɫˈikʌdʒ
noun
- An act of leaking, or something that leaks.
- The amount lost due to a leak.
- An undesirable flow of electric current through insulation.
- Loss of retail stock, especially due to theft.
- (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- (economics) The loss of revenue generated by tourism to the economies of other countries.
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Examples of "leakage" in Sentences
- They handled the leakage problem.
- The hazard of leakage is largely eliminated.
- Leakage of the valve is substantially eliminated.
- Another leakage from the corporate world into government.
- Any leakage from the piston chamber collects in the reservoirs.
- He was diagnosed with acute indigestion and leakage of the heart.
- Means are provided to measure the magnitude of the ground leakage.
- Is it really the high pressure in the capillaries that causes leakage
- The leakages increased the cost of the tunnel from to NOK 1.8 billion.
- "We've got what we call a leakage," Surprise Councilman Skip Hall said.
- A signal will inform the operator of the value of the leakage encountered.
- By the above construction, undesirable leakage of the pump is greatly minimized.
- "Certainly, with Columbine, there was plenty of what we call leakage," Williams said.
- Thought leakage is pretty interesting though, and one version of it is singing a song.
- Mohandie says at least two-thirds of these incidents involve what he calls a leakage of fantasy life.
- Its study concluded that there was no difference in leakage rates across all absorbencies of both brands.
- Many of our readers have said this talent leakage is not such a big deal, as it allows people a chance of upward mobility.
- I mean, clearly, there was a lot of what we refer to as leakage, the evidence that there's an underlying violent fantasy life that is likely an antidote for his feelings of inadequacy.
- Despite selective leakage from the government, it has never been fully explained how both the real Mohamud and a supposed "impostor" were allegedly able to frequent the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi during the long homeward struggle -- with no one noticing the difference.