Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of seeping.
- noun A quantity of something that has seeped.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Percolation; oozing fluid or moisture; also, the amount of a fluid that percolates: as, the seepage is great.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. & U. S. Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.
- noun The act or process of seeping; percolation.
- noun a fluid that seeps out of a container.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the process by which a liquid leaks through a porous substance; the process of
seeping - noun
water that seeped or oozed through aporous soil
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of seeping
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Examples
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This is why the La Brea tar pits exist and have existed since prehistoric times – the tar is seepage from a vast subduction zone.
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Any mercury underground at Pozos must have arrived there through seepage from the surface, or inadvertant transport on descending miners ...
Pozos - Guanajuato 2006
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Any mercury underground at Pozos must have arrived there through seepage from the surface, or inadvertant transport on descending miners ...
Pozos - Guanajuato 2006
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Any mercury underground at Pozos must have arrived there through seepage from the surface, or inadvertant transport on descending miners ...
Pozos - Guanajuato 2006
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Any mercury underground at Pozos must have arrived there through seepage from the surface, or inadvertant transport on descending miners ...
Pozos - Guanajuato 2006
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Any mercury underground at Pozos must have arrived there through seepage from the surface, or inadvertant transport on descending miners ...
Pozos - Guanajuato 2006
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Any mercury underground at Pozos must have arrived there through seepage from the surface, or inadvertant transport on descending miners ...
Pozos - Guanajuato 2006
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Any mercury underground at Pozos must have arrived there through seepage from the surface, or inadvertant transport on descending miners ...
Pozos - Guanajuato 2006
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Any mercury underground at Pozos must have arrived there through seepage from the surface, or inadvertant transport on descending miners ...
Pozos - Guanajuato 2006
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Any mercury underground at Pozos must have arrived there through seepage from the surface, or inadvertant transport on descending miners ...
Pozos - Guanajuato 2006
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