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Definition of infiltration gallery

Infiltration gallery
Infiltration In`fil*tra"tion, n. [Cf. F. infiltration.] 1. The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body. 2. The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body. --Addison. Calcareous infiltrations filling the cavities. --Kirwan. Fatty infiltration. (Med.) See under Fatty. Infiltration gallery, a filter gallery.
infiltration gallery
Filter Fil"ter, n. [F. filtre, the same word as feutre felt, LL. filtrum, feltrum, felt, fulled wool, this being used for straining liquors. See Feuter.] Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air. Filter bed, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. Filter gallery, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also infiltration gallery.

Meaning of infiltration gallery from wikipedia

- infiltration gallery is a structure including perforated conduits in gravel to expedite transfer of water to or from a soil. Infiltration galleries may...
- intermittently filled from the Kobuk River. Previously, there was a water infiltration gallery that was destro**** by ice. Groundwater wells have proven unsuccessful...
- The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution...
- water-bearing alluvium. The radial arrangement of screens forms a large infiltration gallery with a single central withdrawal point. A single collector may produce...
- Infiltration Art is a branch of Intervention Art in which artists collaborate with institutions, communities, politicians, religions, museums and pop-culture...
- roads with open drains, the protected water supply involved river infiltration gallery, service reservoir, overhead tank. It had 548 domestic electric connections...
- open and covered drains, the protected water supply involved river infiltration gallery, service reservoir, tap water from treated sources, uncovered well...
- Water would be diverted from the Gila through perforated pipes in an infiltration gallery, or simply pumped from the river. Widdison, Jerold; Hilton, Joanne;...
- from the Arroyo de la Laguna, Alameda Cr****, through the Sunol infiltration galleries, and a 30-inch (76 cm) pipeline from the artesian well field of...
- iron filters constantly plugged and after 10 years, in 1883, an infiltration gallery system to use groundwater along the river was planned, the first...