blowdown

Meaning

Noun

  • The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure.
  • Cooling fluid discharged from a plant at the end of its cycle.
  • Uprooting, overtopping, or bole breakage of trees by the wind; windthrow and windsnap.
  • The action of aerodynamic forces to tend to cause a deflected control surface to return to its neutral position, or prevent the surface from deflecting past a certain point.

Origin

  • blow + down

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