Usually means: Release of pressure through valves.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. blowdown: Merriam-Webster
  2. blowdown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blowdown: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Blowdown, blowdown: Wordnik
  5. blowdown: Wiktionary
  6. blowdown: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. blowdown: Dictionary.com
  8. Blowdown (TV series), Blowdown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. blowdown: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blowdown: Encyclopedia

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. BLOWDOWN: Power Engineering
  5. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (blowdown)

noun:  (chemical engineering) The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure.
noun:  (industrial engineering) Cooling fluid discharged from a plant at the end of its cycle.
noun:  (forestry) Uprooting, overtopping, or bole breakage of trees by the wind; windthrow and windsnap.
noun:  (aviation) The action of aerodynamic forces to tend to cause a deflected control surface to return to its neutral position, or prevent the surface from deflecting past a certain point.
noun:  (manufacturing, informal) An instance of blowing down with compressed air.

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