vazão
See also: vazaõ
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- vazaõ (obsolete)
Etymology
From vazar (“to leak”) + -ão.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /vaˈzɐ̃w̃/ [vaˈzɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /vɐˈzɐ̃w̃/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /bɐˈzɐ̃w̃/
- Hyphenation: va‧zão
- Homophone: vasão
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
Noun
vazão f (plural vazões)
- emptying (the act of removing all fluid from a container)
- (hydrology) discharge (volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time)
- Synonym: descarga
- (by extension) flow (movement of people or things in a particular direction)
- Synonym: fluxo
Related terms
Verb
vazão
- obsolete spelling of vazam