any body of water located downstream from a dam, lock, etc
tailwater in American English
(ˈteilˌwɔtər, -ˌwɑtər)
noun
the water in a tailrace
Word origin
[1750–60; tail1 + water]This word is first recorded in the period 1750–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bunker, continental, infiltrate, quartz, summation
Examples of 'tailwater' in a sentence
tailwater
Vegetated ditches resulted in intermediate reductions in suspended sediments in tailwater.
Allan Fulton, Blaine Hanson, Rachael Long, Donald P. Weston 2010, 'Mitigation techniques reduce sediment in runoff from furrow-irrigated cropland', California Agriculturehttp://calag.ucanr.edu/archive/?article=ca.v064n03p135. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Irrigation tailwater can transport sediments and sediment-associated agriculturalpollutants to nearby waterways.
Allan Fulton, Blaine Hanson, Rachael Long, Donald P. Weston 2010, 'Mitigation techniques reduce sediment in runoff from furrow-irrigated cropland', California Agriculturehttp://calag.ucanr.edu/archive/?article=ca.v064n03p135. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The influence of the apron length and the downstream tailwater depth were also analysed.
Carvalho Luís, Carvalho Elsa, Aleixo Rui, Lima Maria Manuela C. L. 2018, 'Experimental study of the bed morphology downstream of a sluice gate', E3S Web of Conferenceshttps://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20184003034. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
An alternative process which exhibited effective separation of quartz and feldspar while recycling the tailwater from the flotation was proposed.
Weiqing Wang, Jinyao Cong, Jie Deng, Xiaoqing Weng, Yiming Lin, Yang Huang, TiefengPeng 2018, 'Developing Effective Separation of Feldspar and Quartz While Recycling Tailwater byHF Pretreatment', Mineralshttp://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/8/4/149. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)