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Tankage

Tankage \Tank"age\, n.

  1. The act or process of putting or storing in tanks.

  2. Fees charged for storage in tanks.

  3. The capacity or contents of a tank or tanks.

  4. (Agric.) Waste matter from tanks; esp., the dried nitrogenous residue from tanks in which fat has been rendered, used as a fertilizer.

Wiktionary
tankage

n. 1 storage in a tank 2 the amount that a tank (or tanks) can hold 3 the charge for storage in a tank 4 (cx agriculture English) waste matter from tanks, especially the dried nitrogenous residue from tanks in which fat has been rendered, used as a fertilizer

WordNet
tankage
  1. n. the quantity contained in (or the capacity of) a tank or tanks

  2. the charge for storing something in tanks

  3. the act of storing in tanks

Usage examples of "tankage".

Most of its bulk consisted of insulated tankage filled to capacity with cryogenic hydrogen.

In order to have twice the specific impulse and burn time, the tankage for both fuel and oxidizer had to be larger.

The problem was that the rocket design team had not been able to find available tankage parts that had been flight-proven and were the appropriate size.

John grabbed the tankage portion with the copy tool, then pasted it into a new slide.

Now, put in a standard ten-g star drive in that space, add tankage and plumbing, and tell me how it performs at top Interstellar Drive.

It looked fairly large, but most of its bulk was tankage and engines behind a small cabin and cargo area.

The control room was located at very center of the sphere, with living quarters, supply bins, tankage, auxiliary power system, and workspaces surrounding it.

Most of this, Barbara knew, was internal tankage for reaction mass and consumables.

If nothing attacks us, you will rain, aiming for the tankage complex aft of bulkhead 185.

Mt of the life-support systems she was tankage and engines and little else but access crawlways.

The refugee pods had an open-loop life-support system, there being no room for recycling tankage on this relief flight, so the whole exercise was running into millions, tens of millions.

Some earlier culture had carved out rooms and nooks and tankages and storage chambers, then fused the detritus into more rooms and chambers, until the mass was a stone beehive.

Hulled in three places in number five tankage area, hydrogen leaking to space.

Some earlier culture had carved out rooms and nooks and tankages and storage chambers, then fused the detritus into more rooms and chambers, until the mass was a stone beehive.