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Feb 12, 2012
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leak•age



Pronunciation: (lē'kij), [key]
—n.
1. an act of leaking; leak.
2. something that leaks in or out.
3. the amount that leaks in or out.
4. Com.an allowance for loss by leaking.
5. Physics, Elect.the loss of all or part of a useful agent, as of the electric current that flows through an insulator (leak'age cur"rent) or of the magnetic flux that passes outside useful flux circuits (leak'age flux").

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