Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A volumetric unit for measuring the flow of liquids, equal to one cubic foot per second.
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- noun a
measure of therate offlow offluid , especially through apipeline , equal to onecubic foot persecond
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A cusec is a cubic foot of water flow per second.)
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Once the water volume exceeds 150,000 cusec, alert is sounded.
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Bangladesh agreed to India withdrawing 1.82 cusec of water from Feni river for drinking water supply schemes, the statement said.
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The Prakasam barrage at Vijayawada received a record-breaking 11 lakh cusec water on Monday night and kept all its 70 gates open to discharge the water.
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CHANDIGARH: The water level of Ghaggar river has receded to a significant level and the flow of water in Ottu Weir has reduced to 9,000 cusec today as compared to 20,000 cusecs yesterday.
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Water flow in the river was 218,610 cusec on Tuesday afternoon, the highest this year.
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But the State government has asked for new designs after the recent floods in which the discharge at Prakasam Barrage crossed the 10 lakh-cusec mark.
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In his reply, the minister said the chief minister had already asked the Punjab government to release the state's share of 72,248 cusec of water from the Ranjit Sagar Dam.
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Meanwhile, 1.25 lakh cusec of water has been released in the river Ganga following about a dozen villages, mostly in Patiali and Soron regions, in Etah district have submerged.
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Punjab to release forthwith the State's share of 72,248 cusec-days of
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