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Dictionary: draw·down   (drô'doun') pronunciation
n.
  1. The act, process, or result of depleting: the drawdown of oil supplies; a drawdown of investment capital.
  2. A lowering of the water level in a reservoir or other body of water.

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n. a reduction in the size or presence of a military force: the unit is the first to leave Germany as part of the drawdown.

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The distance by which the groundwater level is lowered as a result of pumping.


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Drawdown has four distinct meanings:

  • Drawdown (hydrology), a lowering of a reservoir or a change in hydraulic head in an aquifer, typically due to pumping a well.
  • Drawdown (economics), decline in the value of an investment, below its all-time high.
  • Drawdown (printing), a test of a particular ink on a particular substrate accomplished by spreading the ink with a spatula
  • Drawdown (general), a reduction or decrease

 
 

 

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Architecture. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.  Read more
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