weirplate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Why a difference in temperature between the water and the weirplate should cause the water to spring clear at low heads cannot very well be explained."
- "The final solution adopted was to measure flow indirectly using an ultrasonic level sensor to record depths of discharge over a weirplate set at a level to exclude tidal ingress into the sewerage system."
- "The liquid is forced to flow over the restriction, and the effluent flow rate is a function of the measured height of liquid above this sharp-edged obstruction, or weirplate."
- "The weirplate at the bottom, inside the drum at F, serves the same purpose as in the machine you have seen — namely, to provide an inner wall of water of the desired thickness within the drum."
- "The heat of hydration evolved inside the main hydrating chamber evaporates the excess water and the lighter hydrate flows out over an adjustable weirplate as dry powder from the outlet of the finishing chamber."
- "Retention period (generally 25 minutes) available for the reaction between lime and water can be adjusted by varying the height of the weirplate […]"