Definitions for leakage

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leakage leak·age

Spelling: [lee-kij]

IPA: /ˈli kɪdʒ/

Leakage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in leakage (aaeegkl).

Definitions for leakage

noun

1. an act of leaking; leak.
2. something that leaks in or out.
3. the amount that leaks in or out.
4. Commerce. an allowance for loss by leaking.
5. Physics, Electricity. the loss of all or part of a useful agent, as of the electric current that flows through an insulator (leakage current) or of the magnetic flux that passes outside useful flux circuits (leakage flux)

Origin of leakage

First recorded in 1480-90; leak + -age

Examples for leakage

The tents are all military tents, and there is no sign of leakage.

But Clapper  has also failed fundamentally to stanch the leakage of secrets so emblematic of his tenure atop the community.

No article of commerce is so liable to waste and leakage as turpentine.

According to Russianoff, leakage is as much a problem on the platforms as it is are inside the cars.

The amount of leakage is, therefore, in direct proportion to the number of fixtures.

Every fuel hold was filled to capacity, with no leakage and no emanation.

Often the disease is in streets lighted by gas, attributed to the leakage of the gas.

The water in them was first served out, on account of leakage.

They'd have it heavily shielded—there'll be no leakage at all.

Vose explained that the leakage was due to the roughness of the trail.