- Seepage
- Seepage Seep"age, n.
1. The act or process of seeping; percolation.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. a fluid that seeps out of a container; as, seepage from a reservoir. [PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Seepage
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