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noun

Leakage n.

A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.

(Com.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.

(Elec.) A leak 3; also; the quantity of electricity thus wasted.

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Etymology of 'Leakage'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Leakage" Quotes from Famous Books

... operation by the combined efforts of many minds in a few days, weeks or months. But it is the individual system and not the individual himself which causes this stupendous waste of time and power, and as long as it is kept in force the leakage of human progress will naturally ...

— Born Again • Alfred Lawson

... pretending that these desperations of ingenuity have not—as through seeming most of the very essence of the problem—their exasperated charm; so far from it that my particular supreme predicament in the Paris hotel, after an undue primary leakage of time, no doubt, over at the great river-spanning museum of the Champ de Mars and the Trocadero, fairly takes on to me now the tender grace of a day that is dead. Re-reading the last chapters of The Tragic Muse I catch again the very odour of Paris, which comes ...

— The Tragic Muse • Henry James

... always leakage of deceit Which makes it never safe to cheat. Whoever is a wolf had better Keep ...

— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine

... less economical, of applying the air power in the consumers' engines; (3) a tracing showing the method of laying the mains; (4) a tracing showing the method of collecting the meter records at the central station, by means of electric apparatus, and ascertaining the exact amount of leakage. A short description of the two latter ...

— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 • Various

... adjoining timbers, stretched across its face to hold it against the impact of the waves. Thus the port, when tightly caulked from without, became again an integral part of the hull; I was told that there had never keen a trace of leakage from her bows. And, most remarkable of all, I was told, when it became necessary to open these ports for use, the task could easily be accomplished by two or three men and a stout watch-tackle. This I am now ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

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