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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A law stating that the rate at which a fluid flows through a permeable medium, such as an aquifer, is directly proportional to the drop in elevation between two places in the medium and inversely proportional to the distance between them.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy.]
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