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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Synonym: WATER LOSSSynonym: Evaporation. (additional references) |
Crosswords: WATER LOSS |
| Specialty definitions using "WATER LOSS": cake thickness, CAM plants, Conveyance loss ♦ Vasopressins ♦ water stress effect. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | 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. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
water loss | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 evapo-transpiração potencial (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration). (various references) evapotranspiración (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration). (various references) evapotranspiration (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration, fly-off, total evaporation, total loss, water losses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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