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n. The area defined by the outermost circumference of a tree canopy from where water drips onto the ground.
Wikipedia
Drip line may refer to:
- Nuclear drip line, the lines beyond which protons or neutrons leak out of nuclei
- Tree drip line, the area defined by the outermost circumference of a tree canopy where water drips from and onto the ground
- Drip irrigation line, where the tubes and hoses are laid
Usage examples of "drip line".
Free of the drip line's tether, he got up and looked at the britches the Elf-Man had tossed at him.
Corky introduced the hypodermic needle into the drug port on the IV drip line.
The dirt and gravel lot was dotted with the same great valley oaks that surrounded the rest of the inn, each on an island of long tawny grass extending out halfway to the drip line of the branches.
The bottle on its stanchion stood next to the bed, and the drip line ended in a needle taped to the inside of its elbow.
He was unconscious, wired to a heart monitor, pierced by an intravenous-drip line.
He imagined the detective finding the injection port in the main drip line, pinching it between thumb and forefinger.
Their communal water trough is fed by a drip line, but if it should ever cease to function, they can find their way to a nearby spring that runs through the property.
A bandage covered him from his shoulder down to his waist, and a drip line was connected to his wrist, the IV bag hanging from a rack next to the bed.
But there will be some sort of physical drip line around this hole, right?
At the kind of pressures we can achieve industrially, we get only slightly past the drip line, which is the point where the neutrons start to condense.