seepage

English

Etymology

seep +‎ -age

Noun

seepage (countable and uncountable, plural seepages)

1. The process by which a liquid leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping.
2. Water that has seeped or oozed through a porous soil.

Derived terms

• antiseepage
• microseepage
• seepage bed

Translations

process

• Czech: průsak (cs)
• Finnish: tihkuminen
• Hebrew: הסתננות‎ (he) (histanenút)
• Hungarian: szivárgás

• Maori: papītanga
• Portuguese: infiltração (pt) f
• Russian: проса́чивание (ru) (prosáčivanije), инфильтра́ция (ru) (infilʹtrácija)
• Spanish: filtración

water

• Russian: инфильтра́т (ru) (infilʹtrát)