Sweepage

Quick meaning: Sweepage is a noun meaning (UK, dialect) The crop of hay obtained from a meadow.

Meaning

(UK, dialect) The crop of hay obtained from a meadow.

More Meanings

1. Detritus that is swept up with a broom or similar implement.
2. The circuit of an oscilloscope used to track the time dimension.
3. The act of sweeping or flowing.
4. The movement of matter by a current.
5. The matter that has been moved by a current.
6. The state when a sweepboat is moving faster than the current of the water.
7. The process by which gases passing beneath the electrodes of an electrostatic precipitator pick up dust from the hoppers, removing it from the precipitator exit.

Example Sentences

Nonuniform gas flow or maldistribution will result in poor collection, excessive reentrainment, or hopper sweepage.

One consequence of poor gas flow is hopper sweepage. High gas flow near the bottom of the precipitator and improper baffling can cause gas flow into the hopper area.

However, observation of the hopper area and the outlet field can usually detect the presence of heavy dust reentrainment either by hopper sweepage or by scouring of the plates.

The drainage, or flow of suds into road ditches or borders, or the drainage of water upon the road itself, as well as any pollution of the same by rubbish, stones, and sweepage from houses or stables, etc., is prohibited.

Word Forms

• sweepages

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sweepings, sweep, sweeping, swath, peasweep, raking.

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