backwash
pronunciation
How to pronounce backwash in British English:
UK [ˈbækwɒʃ]
How to pronounce backwash in American English:
US [ˈbækwɑʃ]
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- Noun:
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
Word Origin
- backwash (n.)
- 1876, "motion of a receeding wave," from back (adj.) + wash (n.).
Example
- 1. Study on backwash of biological aerated filter .
- 2. The backwash sequence includes the following steps .
- 3. The water-skier was caught in the backwash from a passing motorboat , and fell off his skies .
- 4. Yet they are caught in the backwash of an anti-american rhetoric they help create .
- 5. Instead of being reprocessed by the plant , the backwash water now is to be treated in the sweetwater wetlands .