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Flowage

Flowage \Flow"age\ (?; 48), n. An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

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flowage

n. A flowing or overflowing of liquid.

WordNet
flowage
  1. n. gradual internal motion or deformation of a solid body (as by heat); "rock fracture and rock flowage are different types of geological deformation"

  2. a body of water that has been created by deliberately flooding an area; "many campsites were located near the flowage"

  3. the act of flooding; filling to overflowing [syn: flood]

Usage examples of "flowage".

He could cut cross-country on the sled, along the network of Menomin Flowage snowmobile trails.

There are two versions of history, and though in many respects they are identical, in some significant aspects the flowage takes a decidedly different appearance between the two tales.

A short distance below, the water babbled cheerfully along a flat, graveled bed, the flowage no more than a foot or two deep.

I pay a prenegotiated flowage fee to the republics, which is pure profit for them, in addition to the profits they make if they decide to buy and refine some of the crude in their own refineries.

The sun was beginning to set, reflecting off the broad flowage when before him he observed a series of shapes scattered across the flat ground.

Here it must be of the order of only five hundred feetl And the planetary blocks that made a planet's surface float on the zone of flowage -- they determine the zone of fracture.