tankage
IPA: tˈæŋkɪdʒ
noun
- Storage in a tank.
- The amount that a tank (or tanks) can hold.
- The charge levied for storage in a tank.
- (agriculture) Waste matter from tanks, especially the dried nitrogenous residue from tanks in which fat has been rendered, used as a fertilizer.
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Examples of "tankage" in Sentences
- But then, what we loose on any launch, what with expensive rocket engines and tankage, is just amazing.
- And it neatly avoids using the LSAM for LOI, then delivering emptied tankage to the lunar surface, too.
- I.e. the solids plus the tankage and the three SSMEs can hoist 90+ tons to orbit, and that makes the stack a "heavy lifter".
- In part, there was so much secondary structure and highly inefficient tankage inherent in their design that it would have been impossible to extrapolate that design to a full scale SSTO/RLV.
- On top of this were the rooms where they dried the "tankage," the mass of brown stringy stuff that was left after the waste portions of the carcasses had had the lard and tallow dried out of them.
- This has resulted in the plan to cluster the RS-68's in three's (total six), necessitating their "envelope" extend beyond the core tankage, and requiring shrouds which add weight and increase drag.
- Because the Orion had to be so stripped down, the problem caused further issues when it came to the Altair lander which now had to carry propulsion capabilities for purposes other than the critical moon landing phase - which means that dead weight now has to be carried to the surface in the form of excess tankage.
- To this part of the yards came all the "tankage" and the waste products of all sorts; here they dried out the bones, -- and in suffocating cellars where the daylight never came you might see men and women and children bending over whirling machines and sawing bits of bone into all sorts of shapes, breathing their lungs full of the fine dust, and doomed to die, every one of them, within a certain definite time.
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