leakage

4 definitions found

leakage - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Leakage \Leak"age\, n. [Cf. D. lekkage, for sense 1.]
     1. A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by
        leaking.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Com.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the
        leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Elec.) A leak[3]; also; the quantity of electricity
        thus wasted.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

leakage - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  leakage
      n 1: the 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" [syn: escape, leak, leakage,
           outflow]

leakage - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  LEAKAGE. The waste which has taken place in liquids, by their escaping out 
  of the casks or vessels in which they were kept. By the act of March 2, 
  1799, s. 59, 1 Story's L. U. S, 625, it is provided that there be an 
  allowance of two per cent for leakage, on the quantity which shall appear by 
  the gauge to be contained in any cask of liquors, subject to duty by the 
  gallon and ten per cent on all beer, ale, and porter, in bottles and five 
  per cent on all other liquors in bottles; to be deducted, from the invoice 
  quantity, in lieu of breakage or it shall be lawful to compute the duties on 
  the actual quantity, to be ascertained by tale, at the option of the 
  importer, to be made at the time of entry. 
  
  

leakage - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "leakage":
     ablation, access, admission, break, breakout, consumption,
     decrease, decrement, deliverance, delivery, depletion,
     depreciation, dissipation, distillation, drain, dribble, drip,
     dripping, drippings, drop, emergence, entrance, entree, entry,
     erosion, escape, escapism, evaporation, evasion, exhaustion,
     expenditure, extrication, flight, freeing, getaway, import,
     importation, importing, impoverishment, income, incoming,
     infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, input, insertion,
     insinuation, intake, interpenetration, introduction, introgression,
     intrusion, issuance, issue, jailbreak, leak, leaking, liberation,
     outlet, penetration, percolation, prisonbreak, reception, release,
     rescue, riddance, seepage, setting-free, shrinkage, trickle, using,
     using up, vent, wastage, waste, wearing, wearing away