sweepages

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
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
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
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
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

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