ullage
IPA: ˈʌɫɪdʒ
noun
- In a wine bottle, the empty space between the cork and the top of the wine.
- In a cask or barrel, the empty space, occupied by air, that is created by not completely filling the cask or barrel, or through spillage.
- The topping-up of such a barrel with fresh wine.
- In an industrial setting, the empty space in a tank, especially as for fuel.
- Additional cargo of little or no value taken on to prevent movement of shifting of the purposive cargo.
verb
- To gauge the amount of empty space between the top of a cask and the level of liquid inside it.
Examples of "ullage" in Sentences
- Modern tanks are not fitted with ullage valves.
- The terms ullage engine and ullage rocket are also used.
- The text from 'ullage motor' didn't get changed as much.
- They also aid stage separation, and act as ullage motors.
- The terms 'ullage engine' and 'ullage rocket' are also used.
- Ullage refers to the unfilled space in a container of liquid.
- This reduces the oxygen content of the ullage below combustion threshold.
- The ullage level of a wine bottle is sometime described as the fill level .