How to pronounce “blowdown”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (chemical engineering) The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure.
• (industrial engineering) Cooling fluid discharged from a plant at the end of its cycle.
• (forestry) Uprooting, overtopping, or bole breakage of trees by the wind; windthrow and windsnap.
• (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.
• (manufacturing, informal) An instance of blowing down with compressed air.

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