Downwell
adj, adv, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A vertical shaft or well in which water flows downward.
"The proposed work includes enlarging the basin and installing downwells for percolation."
- 2 Synonym of downwelling.
"Warm-water eddies are downwells and cold-water eddies facilitate vertical mixing rather than induce upwelling."
- 1 To sink below material of lower density.
"Some of the northward-flowing waters turn eastward and enter the Throughflow sponge above 1300 m (Figure 5b), where they downwell and return to the interior and spread both to the south and the north (Figure 5c)."
- 2 To penetrate water downward.
"This measurement, as Region 4 stated, has been "commonly used to measure marine turbidity; it does not measure downwelling ambient light.""
- 1 In the lower part of a well.
"By measuring downwell and wellhead temperature, wellbore heat losses through the casing to the formation can be measured."
- 2 towards the nearest planet or other gravity well.
""[...] spend the two weeks after Translator Dlique's funeral on her estate downwell."
- 1 In the lower part of a well.
"These identification plaques will serve as one aspect of continuing control and are intended to be a long-term indication of a sealed radioactive source downwell."
- 2 toward the nearest planet or other gravity well.
"To be safe, we'll have to go downwell."
Synonyms
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More examples"Some of the northward-flowing waters turn eastward and enter the Throughflow sponge above 1300 m (Figure 5b), where they downwell and return to the interior and spread both to the south and the north (Figure 5c)."
Etymology
From down- + well.
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