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drawdown

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In water -related science and engineering there are two similar but distinct definitions in use for drawdown . In subsurface hydrogeology , drawdown is the change in hydraulic head observed at a well in an aquifer , typically due to pumping a well as part ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
of troops, by 1991, in reference to the end of the Cold War; from draw (v.) + down (adv.). Earlier of wells (c.1900).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of reduction or depletion. 2 The result of reduction or depletion. 3 A change in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hydraulic%20head in a well or other body of water. 4 (context economics English) A measure of the decline from a historical peak in ...

Usage examples of drawdown.

The drawdown was not a permanent reprieve, merely an incident in a bureaucratic summer.

Perhaps when the drawdown was complete, they could locate the time capsule which now seemed so valuable.

Duke consulted his notes on the technical aspects of the drawdown, and called the conference to order.

Before the drawdown the stream had been swallowed by the expanse of Breedlove Lake, existing only as a current within the reservoir, but now it had been freed to course through its own eroded canyon, through seasons of silt, as it cut its way to the muddy waters of the great Watauga, pulsing again through the heart of the valley.

The admiral had played a key part in the logistics buildup that helped force Iraq out of Kuwait and had later counseled that the drawdown of forces from Saudi Arabia following the successful conclusion of the war, leaving only a small trip-wire force in Kuwait and massive military stockpiles in the Saudi desert, was premature.

A finger run along the serrated edges and a tiny drawdown of power, and the two layers sealed themselves together again.

Great Drawdown in a hair-raising, eight-part series of NewsMax exposes in March 1999.

The drawdown of strategic missiles—mostly land-based ones for the United States—had radically reduced the number of available warheads, and, like planners everywhere, the Joint Strategic Targeting Staff, co-located with headquarters SAC, tried to make up for the shortfall in any way they could.