sweepage

Noun

sweepage (countable and uncountable, plural sweepages)

1. (UK, dialectal) The crop of hay obtained from a meadow.
   • This right is defined by Lord Coke to extend to the enjoyment of the corn, grass, underwood, sweepage (i.e. everything which falls to the sweep of the scythe), and the like, but not to houses, timber, trees, or mines, .or inany way to the land itself2011, Robert Hunter, The Preservation of Open Spaces, and of Footpaths, and Other Rights of Way, →ISBN, page 61
2. The process by which gases passing beneath the electrodes of an electrostatic precipitator pick up dust from the hoppers, removing it from the precipitator exit.
   • One consequence of poor gas flow is hopper sweepage. High gas flow near the bottom of the precipitator and improper baffling can cause gas flow into the hopper area.1978, Sabert Oglesby, Grady B. Nichols, Electrostatic Precipitation, volume 21, page 260
   • Another qualitative test which should be performed during the geometric model study is the injection of neutral buoyancy smoke into the roof and hopper regions of the collection chamber, particularly near the outlet, to check that significant amounts of gas are not exiting the precipitator without...1994, Howard D. Hesketh, Air and Waste Management: A Laboratory and Field Handbook, →ISBN
3. Detritus that is swept up with a broom or similar implement.
   • The drainage, or flow of suds into road ditches or borders, or the drainage of water upon the road itself, as well as any pollution of the same by rubbish, stones, and sweepage from houses or stables, etc., is prohibited.1891, United States Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Special Consular Reports, page 225
   • Domestic sewage is composed primarily of used up or spent water which contains faecal matter, urine, soapy wastes, waste parts of food materials, rejected or cut parts of vegetables, waste or used up papers, dirt of floor and sweepage items and used up or dirty water.2005, K.R. Gupta, Environment : Problems And Policies, →ISBN, page 38
4. The circuit of an oscilloscope used to track the time dimension.
   • The transient visualizer used in the past were mostly of types in which the voltage for the time sweepage is generated by a relaxation oscillation circuit made up of a hot-cathode discharge tube, say, a thyratron, and a condenser, and the control voltage for the generation of the transient to be...1938, Japanese Journal of Engineering. Abstracts - Volumes 16-20, page 63
   • Between the rectangular impulse circuit and the time sweepage circuit of the oscillograph, the synchronizing circuit formed by the grid circuit of the tube Bi is inserted.1939, Electrotechnical Journal: ETJ. - Volumes 3-4, page 228
5. The act of sweeping or flowing.
   • A drainage gallery of size 1.524 m. -- 0m. x 2.1336 m. -- 0.152 m. runs almost throughout the entire length of the main dam, to intercept sweepage water from the reservoir.1976, C. K. Kareem, Kerala District Gazetteers: Palghat, page 257
   • Acute infection of the periapical tissue due to sweepage of infection/ inflammation/ exudates from apical foramen.2008, Pramod Bansi Mathur, A Hand Book of Clinical Endodontics, →ISBN, page 21
6. The movement of matter by a current.
   • In reservoirs characterized by the presence of well-connected high-permeability streaks, early breakthrough and subsequent water buildup occur due to sweepage along high-permeability channels.2000, SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering, page 463
   • Common causes of CM failure include poor metal preparation, i.e., the presence of contamination on the metal before applicaton of adhesive, insufficient dry film thickness of primer, failure to properly agitate the adhasive to achieve a uniform dispersion prior to application, environmental attack...2001, Bryan G. Crowther, Handbook of Rubber Bonding, →ISBN, page 75
7. The matter that has been moved by a current.
   • The mangrove becomes a solid barrier there, which by its strong, arched and labyrinthine roots collects the sweepage of the fresh water and the salt and holds back the parent sea.2002, Lorraine Anderson, Thomas S. Edwards, At Home on this Earth, →ISBN, page 182
8. The state when a sweepboat is moving faster than the current of the water.
   • He explained that a sweepboat, given the opportunity, will quickly accelerate beyond the speed of the current. This speed is called sweepage, and only when you have sweepage can you effectively sweep.2001, Brad Dimock, Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde, →ISBN
   • "You were going faster than the water." "Good thing. That's sweepage, and it's the only time you've got control. Slow down and you're just wrestling water. Big waves, you've lost sweepage."2006, Christy Yorke, The Secret Lives of the Sushi Club, →ISBN, page 77