Leakage

Definition: Leakage

Leakage

Noun

1. The unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "leakage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Aerospace

Building & Civil Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Nuclear Energy & Physics

Physics

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Synonyms: Leakage

Egress

Noun: egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush; (water in motion); outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion; effluxion, drain; dribbling; Verb: defluxion; drainage; outcome, output; discharge; (excretion).

Waste

Noun: consumption, expenditure, exhaustion; dispersion; ebb; leakage; (exudation); loss; wear and tear; waste; prodigality; misuse; wasting; Verb: rubbish; (useless). mountain in labor.

Crosswords: Leakage

The only side effects are nause, impotence and anal leakage. (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken)

That was an improper thought leakage. -- What have I done wrong (Saturn 3; writing credit: Martin Amis; John Barry)

Cookie pieces contain no calories. The process of breaking causes calorie leakage. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Air Leakage Performance for Detached Single-Family Residential Buildings (A S H R A E Standards, No 119-1988) (reference)

• American National Standard Containment System Leakage Testing Requirements. Prepared by American Nuclear Society Standards Committee, Working Group A (reference)

• Seepage and Leakage from Dams and Impoundments (reference)

• Strength Characteristics and Air Leakage Determinations for Alternative Mine Seal Designs (Report of Investigations) (reference)

• Troubleshooting Hydraulic Components Using Leakage Path Analysis Methods (reference)

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Dr. Robert H. Huffaker is testing what will be an air-tight cabinet, by introducing Freon gas, and using a GE Halogen gas detector in order to detect any leakage of the contained gas. Credit: CDC.

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In the meantime, the public wealth runs off into the river, and the leakage continues

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Health

Medications can reduce many types of leakage. (references)

The device will hold up the bladder to prevent leakage. (references)

Don't believe people who tell you that urine leakage is normal. (references)

Business

The vast majority, 32 percent is lost through leakage. (references)

In addition, Israel requires the goods entering the PA to be marked and labeled in order to prevent leakage back into Israel. (references)

Various water saving techniques are employed on only about 10 percent of surface-irrigated land using land leveling, small ditch or furrow irrigation, canal and ditch leakage prevention, and closed conduit water transportation. (references)

Economic History

Bangladesh

However, the domestic industry complains of the leakage of bonded yarn to the local market, which according the industry sources is counterproductive. (references)

Oman

This problem is exacerbated by a lack of a modern, high-value consumer market, particularly beyond the capital area, with high-value leakage to Dubai and other foreign retail centers; bureaucratic obstacles to enterprise; and a risk-averse trading mentality. (references)

Trade

West Bank

Goods entering WB/G may be subject to marking and labeling requirements in order to prevent leakage back into Israel. (references)

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Expressions using "leakage": base leakage current ♦ data leakage ♦ Dental Leakage ♦ internal leakage ♦ leakage current ♦ leakage currents ♦ leakage manifestations ♦ leakage of information ♦ leakage water ♦ null leakage ♦ quiescent leakage. Additional references.

Ending with "leakage": gas-leakage.

Albanian

rrjedhje (derivation, dotage, dribble, efflux, effusion, escape, flow, flowing, flux, leak, ooze, outflow), pikim (dribble, drip, exudation, leak, ooze), përhapje (diffusion, dilatation, dilation, dissemination, distribution, divulge, expansion, extension, occurrence, permeation, pervasion, prevalence, promulgation, propagation, semination, spread, spreading, transmission, waft), nxjerrje (digging, discharge, drawing, eduction, ejection, elicitation, emission, excretion, extraction, extrusion, heave, inference, outage, output, promulgation, recovery, runout, spew, stripping, superannuation), humbje (blow, come down, damage, defeat, deprivation, disappearance, draft, draught, flight, forfeiture, leak, losing, losings, loss, losses, Miss, passing, privation, wastage, waste), dalje (egress, egression, emergence, emersion, eruption, escape, exit, orifice, out, outcome, outcrop, outgo, outlet, recourse, recovery, rise, safety valve, salience, salient, shoot, vent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تسرب (get home, infiltrate, infiltration, infuse, leak, ooze, seep, seepage), ‏خسارة (damage, disadvantage, doom, drain, injury, loss, miscarriage, mischief, perdition, prejudice, ruination, sacrifice, seep, seepage, spoilage, wastage), ‏الشئ المرتشح, ‏إرتشاح (drain, infiltration, leak), ‏رشح (basing, distil, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, leach, leak, lixiviate, nominate, ooze, ooze away, percolate, secrete, seep, still, sweat, transpiration, transpire, trickle), ‏دلف (draggle, dripping, leak, seepage, spring a leak, toddle, trickle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

утечка (leak, ullage), загуба (decrement, disadvantage, forfeiture, leak, loss, prejudice, shock, wastage, waste), пропущане, изтичане (discharge, effluence, efflux, effusion, escape, expiration, expiry, flow, fluxion, issuance, issue, leak, outflow, outgo, outlet, seepage, termination), изпускане (emission, exhaustion, expulsion, leak, omission, outlet, release). (various references)

Chinese 

漏出, 滲漏 (seepage). (various references)

Czech

vytékání (egression, issue), unikání. (various references)

Danish

luftudslip, laekage (leak), lækage (feed, feeder, leak, small), utæthed, shunt (shunt), neutronlækage, nedsivningstab (seepage loss), gennembrud (breakdown, breakthrough, end point, penetration, Relative Strength Index). (various references)

Dutch

lekkage (leak), lek (burst, cut, decay, leak, lek, puncture), verlies door uitzijging (seepage loss), verlies (lose, loss), uitzijgingsverlies (seepage loss), stroomverlies. (various references)

Farsi 

فاش شدگی(اسرار), چکه (Drip, Drop, Leak, Seep, Seepage, Sprinkle, Trickle), نشت (Leak), کمبود (Dearth, Deficiency, Deficit, Shortage, Shortcoming), کسری (Lack, Shortage), کسر (Deduction, Deficiency, Deficit, Diminution, Under), تراوش (Gush, Leak). (various references)

Finnish

vuoto (bleeding, discharge, leak). (various references)

French

perte (leak), fuite (leak). (various references)

German

verlust (abatement, bereavement, deficit, deprivation, disadvantage, forfeiture, losing, loss, miss, wastage), Leck (leak, leaky, seepage), auslaufen (be discontinued, come to a stop, discharge, drain, ease off, empty, escape, leak, leak out, put out, run, run out, rundown, sail, slow down), leckage (leak, ullage). (various references)

Greek 

διαρροή (leak, leakiness, ooze, seepage), διαφυγή (escape). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"�"לפ�" (leak), �"ליפ�" (dripping, leak, oozing, seepage, trickling), �"לף (leak), � זיל�" (flow, leak). (various references)

Hungarian

lyuk (burrow, cavity, chuck-hole, earth, eye, hole, pit, puncture, sector, socket, vent), elszivárgás (escape, fugacity, leak, ooze, oozing, seepage, ullage), tömítetlenség, szivárgás (bleed, leak, ooze, seepage, trickle), súlyveszteség, kiszivárgás (leak), kifolyás (efflux, effusion, issue, ooze, outflow, spillage, spilling), kicsurgás, áteresztés. (various references)

Indonesian

perembesan (infiltration, oozing), kebocoran (leak, puncture), bocoran (leak). (various references)

Italian

perdita per infiltrazione (seepage loss), Perdita (bereavement, blackout, breakdown, damage, deprivation, forfeit, forfeiture, leak, loss, sortie, toll, waste), indiscrezione (indiscretion, officiousness), fuga di neutroni, fuga (break, breakaway, escape, flight, fugue, get away, leak, outrush, run, scape, sprint), falla (leak), dispersione (disbandment, dispersal, dispersion, dissipation, scattering), colatura (blossom drop, casting, coulure, curtaining, damping off, damping off of seedlings, run, running, sag, sagging). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

漏電 (power failure, short circuit), 漏水 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

リーケージ , ろうすい (senile decay, senility), ろうで�" (power failure, short circuit), ろうせつ, ろうえい (disclosure, escape, recitation), もり (baby-sitting, forest, harpoon, helping, lance, leak, nursemaid, serving), もれ (omission, oversight). (various references)

Korean 

누설 (Divulging). (various references)

Manx

skeaylley (bestrew, breed, cast loose, demobilization, diffract, diffuse, diffusion, disband, discharge, dismiss, dispel, disseminate, dissipate, dissipation, dissolution, dissolve, draw apart, drop away, liquidate, looseness, release, resolution, resolve, run out, scatter, scattering, scramble, slacken, slackening, slip, spread, spreading, spring, sprinkle, sprinkling, undoing, unfix, unfurl, unfurling), lhiggey stiagh (admission, admit, initiate, initiation, leak), lhiggey magh (allocation, allocation work, assignation, discharge, emit, leak, let out, pay out, rap out, utterance, veer, vent, venting), faarney (drip, dripping, drop, Ferns, get in, leak). (various references)

Norwegian

lekkasje (leak). (various references)

Pig Latin

eakagelay.(various references)

Portuguese

perda (bereavement, confusion, damage, deprivation, forfeit, forfeiture, loss, misbirth, miscarriage, miss, offscourings, perdition, prejudice, privation, ruination, seepage, undoing, wastage, waste, wreck), fuga (bolt, break, bunk, chevy, escape, flight, flying, fugue, getaway, lam, loophole, scape, scurry, trail). (various references)

Romanian

scurgere (course, discharge, drain, drainage, effluence, effluent, efflux, escape, flow, issue, lapse, leaking, loss, March, overflow, passage, passing, running, trickling), scãpare (deliverance, escape, escapement, getaway, liberation, muff, negligence, omission, recourse, rescue, riddance, salvation, slip), şuntare (leak). (various references)

Russian 

утечка (efflux, escape, leak, outage, seepage, spillage, ullage, wastage). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

propuštanje (laches, omission, pretermission), isticanje (efflux, emphasis, expiration, outgo), curenje (drip, leak, ooze, seepage, trickle). (various references)

Spanish

filtración (filtering, filtration, leak, percolation, seepage), fuga (elopement, escape, fugue, getaway, jailbreak, leak, outflow), escape (avoidance, blowoff, blowout, elopement, escape, escapement, exhaust, exhaust pipe, flight, fuite, getaway, leak). (various references)

Swedish

läckage (leak, seepage). (various references)

Thai

การรั่ว. (various references)

Turkish

sızma (efflux, infiltration, leak, ooze, oozing, outflow, percolation, permeation), sızıntı miktarı, sızıntı (creep, creepage, efflux, emanation, escape, leak, ooze, outflow, runaway, seepage), kaçak (absconder, contraband, deserter, escape, escapee, fugitive, furtive, illegal, leak, on the lam, run, runaway, smuggled), fire (outage, shrinkage, turnover, ullage, Wantage, wastage). (various references)

Ukrainian

втрата (atrophy, deprivation, detriment, forfeiture, losing, loss, waste), витік (leak, outage, outfall, outflow), просочування (dripping, imbibition, ooze, percolation, saturation, seepage). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lỗ hở vật lọt qua, vật rỉ ra, sự thoát ra sự để lọt, sự rò ra (transudation), sự rỉ ra (seepage, transudation), sự lọt qua. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "leakage": leakages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Leakage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leackage, Oleaceae. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: galeae.

-2 letters: aglee, akela, algae, eagle, galea, gleek.

-3 letters: agee, akee, alae, alee, alga, egal, gala, gale, geek, glee, kale, keel, lake, leak, leek, leke.

-4 letters: aal, aga, age, ala, ale, eel, eke, elk, gae, gal, gee, gel, kae, kea, keg, lag, lea, lee, leg, lek.

-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, al, el, ka, la.

+1 letter: leakages.