Look up: flume

1. Flume
   A natural or man-made channel that diverts water.
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2. flume
   [n] - watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs
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3. flume
   A laboratory device consisting of a water channel in which scale model trawl nets and other underwater equipment can be observed and evaluated for effectiveness. Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • a conduit for conducting water. Category: agricul...
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4. Flume
   Flume noun [ Confer Middle English flum river, OF, flum , from Latin flumen , from fluere to flow. √84. See Fluent .] A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or...
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5. flume
   noun watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs
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6. Flume
   • (n.) A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.
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7. flume
   
   • a narrow gorge with a stream running through it
   • watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs
   
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8. flume
   Another word for a luge.
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9. Flume
   in Washington to generate electricity A `flume` is an open artificial water channel, in the form of a gravity chute, that leads water from a diversion dam or weir completely aside a natural flow. Often, the flume is an elevated box structure (typically wood) that follows the natural contours of the ...
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