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sinkage

n. 1 An amount of material involved in a sinking 2 An area of sunken ground; a depression 3 Change in draft a vessel obtains when moving through the water

Usage examples of "sinkage".

The redoubt had been built on a groundsill of rubble and timber to keep it raised above the frozen tundra and protected from sinkage during spring thaw.

Oxygen production, and carbon sinkage, occurred mostly in the temperate regions.

They just wanted Norau to quit producing carbon, not realizing that if they did half the sinkage would go away with it.

Even when things were bowling along all friendly, he always sensed the weight, the sinkage, the falling mercury inside his chest.