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Webster 1913 Edition


Pumpage

Pump′age

,
Noun.
That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.
The
pumpage
last year amounted to . . . gallons.
Sci. Amer.

Definition 2024


pumpage

pumpage

English

Noun

pumpage (countable and uncountable, plural pumpages)

  1. That which is raised by pumps.
  2. The amount of work done by pumps.
    • 1962, Arthur John Zeizel, Ground-water resources of Du Page County, Illinois
      A comparison of Silurian dolomite aquifer water-level hydrographs and pumpage graphs indicates that in general water-level decline is directly proportional to pumpage and suggests that recharge balances discharge.