leakage

English

Etymology

leak +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːkɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Hyphenation: leak‧age

• Audio (US)

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Noun

leakage (countable and uncountable, plural leakages)

1. An act of leaking, or something that leaks.
2. The amount lost due to a leak.
3. An undesirable flow of electric current through insulation.
4. Loss of retail stock, especially due to theft.
5. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
6. (economics) The loss of revenue generated by tourism to the economies of other countries.

Derived terms

• carbon leakage
• cash leakage
• leakage current
• search leakage

 

Translations

act of leaking

• Arabic: تَسْرِيب m (tasrīb)
• Armenian: արտահոսք (hy) (artahoskʻ)
• Belarusian: це́ча f (cjéča), вы́цек m (výcjek), уце́чка f (ucjéčka)
• Bulgarian: теч m (teč), уте́чка f (utéčka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洩漏／泄漏 (zh) (xièlòu)

• Dutch: lekkage (nl) f
• Finnish: vuoto (fi)
• French: fuite (fr) f
• German: Leck (de) m
• Greek: διαρροή (el) f (diarroḯ)
• Irish: sileadh m
• Italian: perdita (it) f, fuga (it) f
• Japanese: リーク (ja) (rīku), 漏れ (ja) (もれ, more)
• Korean: 누설(漏泄) (ko) (nuseol), 루설(漏泄) (ruseol) (North Korea)
• Maori: papītanga
• Polish: przeciek (pl) m
• Portuguese: vazamento (pt)
• Romanian: pierdere (ro) f
• Russian: течь (ru) f (tečʹ), уте́чка (ru) f (utéčka)
• Spanish: derrame (es) m
• Swedish: läckage (sv) n
• Turkish: sızıntı (tr)
• Ukrainian: те́ча f (téča), ви́тік m (výtik)

amount lost

• Bulgarian: фира (bg) f (fira)
• Dutch: lekkage (nl) f
• Greek: διαρροή (el) f (diarroḯ)
• Swedish: läckage (sv) n

undesired flow of electric current

• Bulgarian: утечка f (utečka)
• Greek: διαρροή (el) f (diarroḯ)
• Romanian: scurgere de curent f
• Swedish: läckström c

loss of stock

• Swedish: svinn (sv)