From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From leak + -age.
- IPA(key): /ˈliːkɪd͡ʒ/
- Hyphenation: leak‧age
leakage (countable and uncountable, plural leakages)
- An act of leaking, or something that leaks.
- The amount lost due to a leak.
- An undesirable flow of electric current through insulation.
- Loss of retail stock, especially due to theft.
- (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- (economics) The loss of revenue generated by tourism to the economies of other countries.
act of leaking
- Arabic: تَسْرِيب m (tasrīb)
- Armenian: արտահոսք (hy) (artahoskʻ)
- Belarusian: це́ча f (cjéča), вы́цек m (výcjek), уце́чка f (ucjéčka)
- Bulgarian: теч m (teč), уте́чка f (utéčka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 洩漏／泄漏 (zh) (xièlòu)
- Dutch: lekkage (nl) f
- Finnish: vuoto (fi)
- French: fuite (fr) f
- German: Leck (de) m
- Greek: διαρροή (el) f (diarroḯ)
- Irish: sileadh m
- Italian: perdita (it) f, fuga (it) f
- Japanese: リーク (ja) (rīku), 漏れ (ja) (もれ, more)
- Korean: 누설(漏泄) (ko) (nuseol), 루설(漏泄) (ruseol) (North Korea)
- Maori: papītanga
- Polish: przeciek (pl) m
- Portuguese: vazamento (pt)
- Romanian: pierdere (ro) f
- Russian: течь (ru) f (tečʹ), уте́чка (ru) f (utéčka)
- Spanish: derrame (es) m, fuga (es) f, filtración f
- Swedish: läckage (sv) n
- Turkish: sızıntı (tr)
- Ukrainian: те́ча f (téča), ви́тік m (výtik)
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undesired flow of electric current
