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backwash v. t.

To clean the oil from (wool) after combing.

(Chem.) To clean (a filter, a chromatography column, a water softener, etc.) by passing liquid through in the reverse of the normal direction of flow. This procedure dislodges particles which clog the pores of the filter or column packing, removing them from the filter or column.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Backwash" Quotes from Famous Books

... year old, barefooted boy upon the streets a kind of backwash of the wave of glory that had swept over Windy McPherson in the days of '61 lapped upon the shores of the Iowa village. That strange manifestation called the A. P. A. movement brought the old soldier to a position of prominence in the community. He founded a local branch of the organisation; ...

— Windy McPherson's Son • Sherwood Anderson

... an awkward pause ensued between Davilof and Magda, backwash of the obvious clash of antagonism ...

— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler

... 22nd, we experienced a little of the backwash of the first Hun gas attack against the French and Canadians in the Ypres Salient a few miles North of us. During most of the time we had been in this area there had been considerable activity in that quarter, and the shelling and burning of Ypres could be plainly seen from the Kemmel trenches. ...

— The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 - History of the 1/8th Battalion • W.C.C. Weetman

... the backwash of an American monetary disturbance or a crisis in the Near East or in the Far East, or some other cause influencing world trade, and as independent of our control as are the phases of the moon, may easily have the effect of letting loose upon thousands of humble families and households ...

— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill

Words linked to "Backwash" : issue, consequence, slipstream, outcome, airstream, moving ridge, result, wake, effect, event, race, wave, upshot, aftermath