underflow
Britishnoun
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another word for undercurrent
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computing a condition that occurs when arithmetic operations produce results too small to store in the available register
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However, here, as in the Chaco, there is an underflow, which the Indians know how to utilize and from which they can always obtain a sufficient supply of potable water.
From Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898 by Cosmos Mindeleff
Presumably your rainfall is too small for fruit unless you strike underflow below the hardpan.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson
Though powerful to check, she ne'er could change The underflow and current of their life.
From Under King Constantine by Katrina Trask
This is driven by an underflow of current.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
Report of the special agent in charge of the artesian and underflow investigations, and of the irrigation inquiry.
From United States Government Publications, v. 8 Jan-Jun 1892 A Monthly Catalog by Compiled
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