byflowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From by- +‎ flow.

名詞

byflow (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 byflows)

1. That which flows by, near, or around; an ancillary or secondary flow.
   • 1966, Sedimentation - Issue 2, page 2:

     Runoff measurements tended to be slightly inaccurate due to underflow or byflow of small but rapid streams flowing in solid or pebbly mountainous channels.

   • 1966, Josef D. Zimmerman, Irrigation, page 326:

     The internal overflow steel dam should be used for this purpose to allow byflow. With a closed-type riser it should be possible to couple the suction pipe to the hydrant and, of course, no byflow arrangement is required.

   • 1979, American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, volume 12, page 95:

     Why not cut St. Leonard's-on-Sea, which is a confounded Hastings circuited by a byflow of parade, and come straight here to Bournemouth — really one of the prettiest of all the English Sea-Sides, with pines growing to the sands.

   • 1989, Gerhard Schaefer, Systems Thinking in Biology Education, page 10:

     In other words, in the main flow it is the physical variable itself, the "substance", that matters; in the by-flow it is just information.