WATER LOSS

  

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WATER LOSS

Specialty Definition: WATER LOSS

DomainDefinition

Geography

The conversion of water, whether surface water, soil moisture(both by evaporation)or within plants(by transpiration)into water vapour that is released to the atmosphere. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

The amount of drill water that escapes into porous or fractured borehole wall rocks and hence does not return and overflow at the collar of theborehole. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: WATER LOSS

Synonym: Evaporation. (additional references)

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Crosswords: WATER LOSS

Specialty definitions using "WATER LOSS": cake thickness, CAM plants, Conveyance lossVasopressinswater stress effect. (references)

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Commercial Usage: WATER LOSS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Water Loss Control Manual (reference)

  • Leak Detection and Water Loss Reduction Sem at Awwa 1986 Distribution System (reference)

  • Proceedings: Awwa Seminar on Hydraulics and Water Loss Control, Dallas, Texas June 10-14, 1984 (Order No. 20180) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: WATER LOSS

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Field technician Emilio Chavez drives a tractor-drawn stalk puller that uproots plants after harvest. This prevents regrowth, water loss, and overwintering of pests in cotton and grain sorghum fields. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: WATER LOSS

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Business

Given the water loss problems the MWA experiences, process control equipment is a special need. The MWA also needs more attention on sludge control technology. (references)

Another major plan now waiting approval from the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB), is a water loss reduction project that the MWA values at 10 billion baht. The MWA reports that about 40 percent of its capacity goes to non-revenue sources. (references)

Economic History

Panama

Water loss is estimated at 50%, of which 20% is technical and 30% commercial. (references)

Syria

Both Aleppo and Damascus municipalities are working to upgrade city water pipes to reduce water loss and install meters to better monitor consumption. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WATER LOSS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

water loss

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: WATER LOSS

Language Translations for "WATER LOSS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

evapotranspiration (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration), den totale fordampning (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

evapotranspiratie (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kokonaishaihdunta (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration), evapotranspiraatio (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration, fly-off, total evaporation, total loss, water losses). (various references)

   

French

  

evapotranspiration (consumptive water use), consommation d'eau (consumptive water use), consommation absolue d'eau (consumptive water use). (various references)

   

German

  

Gesamtverdunstung (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration, fly-off, total evaporation, total loss, water losses), Evapotranspiration (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration), aktuelle Verdunstung (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ολική εξάτμισις (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration). (various references)

   

Italian

  

evapo-traspirazione (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration), evapotraspirazione (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration, fly-off, total evaporation, total loss, water losses). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aterway osslay

   

Portuguese

  

evapo-transpiração potencial (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

evapotranspiración (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

evapotranspiration (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration, fly-off, total evaporation, total loss, water losses). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: WATER LOSS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-l-o-r-s-s-t-w"

-1 letter: warstles, wartless, wastrels, wrastles.

-2 letters: artless, lassoer, lasters, oarless, ostlers, salters, serosal, slaters, slowest, solates, sterols, trowels, warless, warsles, warstle, wasters, wastrel, worsets, wrassle, wrastle.

-3 letters: alerts, alters, artels, assert, assort, asters, awless, estral, lasers, laster, leasts, lessor, losers, lowers, lowest, oaters, orates, osteal, ostler, owlets, rassle, ratels, rawest, resaws, resows, roasts, rosets.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-o-r-s-s-t-w"
 

+2 letters: starflowers.

 

+3 letters: plasterworks, stonewallers, strawflowers, towardliness.

 

+5 letters: towardlinesses, wafflestompers, watercolorists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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