Crossword clues for depletion
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Depletion \De*ple"tion\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]pl['e]tion.]
The act of depleting or emptying.
(Med.) the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion 2 the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished
WordNet
n. the act of decreasing something markedly
the state of being depleted
Wikipedia
Depletion may refer to:
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Depletion (accounting), an accounting concept that may be relating to:
- Oil depletion, the declining of oil supply
- Overdrafting, extracting groundwater beyond the equilibrium yield of an aquifer
- Ozone depletion, a decline in the total amount of ozone in Earth's stratosphere
- Resource depletion, the exhaustion of raw materials within a region
Depletion is an accounting concept used most often in mining, timber, petroleum, or other similar industries. The depletion deduction allows an owner or operator to account for the reduction of a product's reserves. Depletion is similar to depreciation in that it is a cost recovery system for accounting and tax reporting. For tax purposes, the two types of depletion are cost depletion and percentage depletion.
For mineral property, one generally must use the method that gives you the larger deduction. For standing timber, one must use cost depletion.
According to the IRS Newswire, over 50 percent of oil and gas extraction businesses use cost depletion to figure their depletion deduction. Mineral property includes oil and gas wells, mines, and other natural deposits (including geothermal deposits). For that purpose, property is each separate interest businesses own in each mineral deposit in each separate tract or parcel of land. Businesses can treat two or more separate interests as one property or as separate properties.
Usage examples of "depletion".
Their bioelectric fields were down fifteen percent from the recommended human level, while their metabolism and general blood chemistry showed signs of advanced energy depletion.
Back in the 1970s, hydrologists estimated that at the then-current depletion rates, the Ogallala will be dry by the year 2020.
There would be interregional and, within INOR, international competition that would increase the rate of depletion in resources.
Depletion of the blood by drastic and poisonous medicines, such as antimony and mercurials, hemorrhages and blood-letting, syphilis, excessive mental or physical labor, as well as a too early use and abuse of the sexual organs, all tend to waste the blood, reduce the tone of the system, and develop scrofula.
Overpopulation, over- development, nuclear terrorism, environmental warfare tactics, radiation leakage from power plants and waste dumps, toxic waste, air pollution, deforestation, pollution and overfishing of the oceans, global warming, ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity through extinction.
Prompt radiation, superstellar temperatures, electromagnetic pulse, thermal pulse, blast overpressure, fallout, disease, loss of immunity, cold, dark, contamination, inherited deformity, ozone depletion: with what hysterical ferocity, with what farcical disproportion, do nuclear weapons loathe human life.
When I got to my room I thought I had better look at the bank notes, for the depletion of my purse disquieted me.
This patient had been attacked with puerperal fever, at three of her previous confinements, but the disease yielded to depletion and other remedies without difficulty.
He sees KILL ALL SPIX and NIGERS, the message flanked by swastikas, and wonders at verbal depletion so complete the sufferer cannot even spell his favorite epithets.
System of Biochemistry, there is depletion of the mineral salts within the tissues of the respiratory tracts and especially the nose.
He told them about the Roanoke Island colony, about vanishing Mayan civilizations, about mysterious depletions of marine populations, about an army that disappeared in 1711.
Over the years, there have been a few mysterious depletions of fish populations in that area, too, so the ancient enemy theory is applicable.
We have been liquidating our natural capital as if it were disposable income, and are nearing depletion of certain capital stocks, like oil, wood, soil, metals, fresh water, fish, and animals.
Depletion of the ozone layer, global warming from an increased greenhouse effect, and global cooling from nuclear war are all ways in which present technology can significantly alter the environment of our world—.
Depletion of the ozone layer, global warming from an increased greenhouse effect, and global cooling from nuclear war are all ways in which present technology can significantly alter the environment of our world-and in each case as an inadvertent consequence of doing something else.