underflow

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Though popular among hackers, it is not confined to hackerdom; physicists, engineers, astronomers, and statisticians all use it. :lost in the underflow: adj.

From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Raymond, Eric S.

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 Mindeleff, Cosmos

F. B. A special report of work in the artesian and underflow investigation, and views of certain conditions existing in South Dakota. 12pp.,

From United States Government Publications, v. 8 Jan-Jun 1892 A Monthly Catalog by Compiled

Here the waters lost themselves for many feet in the underflow so common in this land of aimless, uncertain waterways.

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill

Final geological reports of the artesian and underflow investigation between the 97th meridian of longitude and the foothills of the Rocky mountains, to the Secretary of Agriculture.

From United States Government Publications, v. 8 Jan-Jun 1892 A Monthly Catalog by Compiled