Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

manning formula

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English

Syllables: man-ning -for-mu-la
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An empirical formula estimating the average velocity of a liquid flowing in a conduit that does not completely enclose the liquid, i.e. an open channel.

Etymology

Named after the Irish engineer Robert Manning, who in 1890 redeveloped the original formulation by the French engineer Philippe Gauckler in 1867.

Inflected Forms

the Manning formula (canonical)

Questions

What does manning formula mean?: An empirical formula estimating the average velocity of a liquid flowing in a conduit that does not completely enclose the liquid, i.e. an open channel.
Where does manning formula come from?: Named after the Irish engineer Robert Manning, who in 1890 redeveloped the original formulation by the French engineer Philippe Gauckler in 1867.

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