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▪ I. ˈoutflow, n.
[out- 7.]
1. The act or fact of flowing out, efflux.
1869Phillips Vesuv. xi. 315 Now rising into sudden jets, then sinking into a difficult outflow. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 772 An opening which permitted the constant outflow of fluid.
attrib.1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 453 Inflow and outflow tubes to the water-jacket.
b. The amount that flows out.
1875Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. 610 In the first thirty-three hours the outflow..amounted to 26·45 cubic cm. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 247 The outflow of blood..has been seen to increase from two to six times.
2. fig. Any outward movement analogous to the flowing of water.
a1800Observer No. 13 (R.) The influx of foreigners, and the out-flow of natives, which the present peace will occasion. 1862Sat. Rev. XIII. 640/2 The outflow of gold..is certain to continue and increase. 1869Goulburn Purs. Holiness x. 91 The outflow of His Divine compassion. 1896Edin. Rev. Jan. 108 A strong outflow of poetical feeling.
▪ II. outˈflow, v.
[out- 14.]
intr. To flow out. (poet.)
c1580Sidney Ps. xlii. ii, My teares out-flowing. a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 91 To suck th' Effluviums which he smelt out-flow. 1824Campbell Theodric 533 Shall bitterness outflow from sweetness past? 1909Daily Chron. 3 Mar. 5/7 Then outflowed a stream of facts and figures whose accumulated force swept the critics off their feet. |