seepage

English

Etymology

From seep +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

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Noun

seepage (countable and uncountable, plural seepages)

1. The process by which something, especially a liquid, leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping. (Also used figuratively: the process of diffusing.)
   • 1922, S.A.E. Journal, page 262:

     […] while they all admit that the most serious losses occur by seepage of gas from, and oil into, the combustion-chamber and that this seepage is  […]

   • 1972, Rio Blanco Gas Stimulation Project: Environmental Impact Statement, page 42:

     In the case of the Rio Blanco experiment, it is the seepage of gas which is considered to be the "worst possible situation" that might occur.

   • 2014, Joe Nickell, Adventures in Paranormal Investigation, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:

     Despite some seepage of customs from north of the border, the Day of the Dead is not [widespread in the US].

2. Water that has seeped or oozed through a porous soil.

Derived terms

• antiseepage
• microseepage
• seepage bed

Translations

process

• Bulgarian: просмукване (bg) n (prosmukvane)
• Czech: průsak (cs)
• Finnish: tihkuminen (fi)
• Galician: filtración (gl) f
• German: Versickerung f, Einsickerung f
• Hebrew: הסתננות (he) (histanenút)
• Hungarian: szivárgás (hu)
• Maori: papītanga
• Portuguese: infiltração (pt) f
• Russian: проса́чивание (ru) (prosáčivanije), инфильтра́ция (ru) (infilʹtrácija)
• Spanish: filtración

water

• Bulgarian: утечка f (utečka)
• Dutch: kwel (nl) m
• Russian: инфильтра́т (ru) (infilʹtrát)
• Spanish: filtración f
• Turkish: sızıntı (tr)