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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A law stating that the rate at which a fluid flows through a permeable medium, such as an aquifer, is directly proportional to the drop in elevation between two places in the medium and inversely proportional to the distance between them.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy.]

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