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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outflow
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
net
▪ The problem with a high-tech start-up is that you have a net cash outflow.
▪ Balance of payments disequilibrium A balance of payments deficit involves a net outflow of currency.
▪ In the half it used up £21m of this provision, and the net cash outflow of the group was £40m.
■ NOUN
cash
▪ This cash outflow occurred in the first half of the year.
▪ After two years of strong cash inflow, there was a cash outflow of £9.5 million.
▪ This year there has been a cash outflow in respect of the amounts provided.
▪ The problem with a high-tech start-up is that you have a net cash outflow.
▪ The cash outflow covers the cost of borrowed funds at the money market interest rate.
▪ The net interest charge increased significantly in the second half of the year, reflecting the year's cash outflow.
▪ In the half it used up £21m of this provision, and the net cash outflow of the group was £40m.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
outflow pipes
▪ chemical outflow into the bay
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A fall in interest rates will lead to an outflow of short-term capital from the country.
▪ All the outflow is destined to enter the Niagara River and plunge over the Falls.
▪ In the case of early outflows and late inflows, the fifteenth of the month may be the most appropriate date.
▪ Radiographs of the chest showed enlargement of the right heart with prominence of the pulmonary outflow tract.
▪ The problem with a high-tech start-up is that you have a net cash outflow.
▪ This cash outflow occurred in the first half of the year.
▪ Total inflows minus total outflows results in the predicted net cash gain or loss during the month.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outflow

Outflow \Out"flow`\, n. A flowing out; efflux.

Outflow

Outflow \Out*flow"\, v. i. To flow out.
--Campbell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outflow

1869, from out (adv.) + flow (n.).

Wiktionary
outflow

n. The process of flowing out vb. (context intransitive English) To flow outward.

WordNet
outflow
  1. n. the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak" [syn: escape, leak, leakage]

  2. the process of flowing out [syn: effluence, efflux] [ant: inflow, inflow]

  3. a natural flow of ground water [syn: spring, fountain, outpouring, natural spring]

Wikipedia
Outflow

Outflow (contrasted with inflow) may refer to:

  • Capital outflow - an economic term describing capital flowing out of (or leaving) a particular economy.
  • Bipolar outflow in astronomy represents two continuous flows of gas from the poles of a star.
  • Discharge (hydrology) - In hydrology, the outflow or discharge of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time.
  • Outflow (meteorology), in meteorology, is air that flows outwards from a thunderstorm.
  • Outflow boundary in atmospheric science means thunderstorm-cooled air (outflow) from the surrounding air.
Outflow (meteorology)

Outflow, in meteorology, is air that flows outwards from a storm system. It is associated with ridging, or anticyclonic flow. In the low levels of the troposphere, outflow radiates from thunderstorms in the form of a wedge of rain-cooled air, which is visible as a thin rope-like cloud on weather satellite imagery or a fine line on weather radar imagery. Low-level outflow boundaries can disrupt the center of small tropical cyclones. However, outflow aloft is essential for the strengthening of a tropical cyclone. If this outflow is undercut, the tropical cyclone weakens. If two tropical cyclones are in proximity, the upper level outflow from the system to the west can limit the development of the system to the east.

Usage examples of "outflow".

Now: given a light of this degree, remaining in the upper sphere at its appointed station, pure light in purest place, what mode of outflow from it can be conceived possible?

This combined power springs from the Supreme, an outflow and as it were development from That and remaining dependent upon that Intellective nature, showing forth That which, in the purity of its oneness, is not Intellectual-Principle since it is no duality.

It was hanging like someone exhausted out of an outflow pipe into the Tar.

It found the outflow pipe of the helmet and thrust its mouth into the funnel, its tongue anchoring it like some vampiric umbilical cord.

When water runs through wool or when papyrus-pulp gives up its moisture why is not the moist content expressed to the very last drop or even, without question of outflow, how can we possibly think that in a mixture the relation of matter with matter, mass with mass, is contact and that only the qualities are fused?

For the Intellectual-Principle is the earliest form of Life: it is the Activity presiding over the outflowing of the universal Order--the outflow, that is, of the first moment, not that of the continuous process.

This second outflow is a Form or Idea representing the Divine Intellect as the Divine Intellect represented its own prior, The One.

Bodman had the compartment more or less clear the PO got the deck apes on the outflow pump working with mops.

In rising one foot a lake may store away more water than the river by its consequent rise at the point of outflow will carry away in many months, and this for the simple reason that the lake may be many hundred or even thousand times as wide as the stream.

Where the outflow is so slight that the fluid does not gather into drops, it forms an incrustation of limy matter, which often gathers in beautiful flowerlike forms, or perhaps in the shape of a sheet of alabaster.

In the crust of the earth each layer of rock resists the outflow of heat, and each addition lifts the temperature of all the layers below.

Falville was not familiar with the devices, but he felt about, trying to find a switch that would stop the outflow of fuel.

The plasma bolts had hit low, so each surge drew a vacuum within the water tank and choked the outflow until air forced its way through the holes.

The chilly waters of the northward sweeping Humboldt Current were warmed by excess heat outflow from the massive desalination plant to the south, but the transitory warmth extended only to a depth of four to five meters.

Profit and loss, inflow and outflow, pluses and minuses, sales and bargaining and corporate design.