underflow

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Though popular among hackers, it is not confined to hackerdom; physicists, engineers, astronomers, and statisticians all use it. :lost in the underflow: /adj./

From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.

Its current, unripplingly smooth, but dimpled ever, and wrinkled with the whirls that mark an underflow deep and shady, bore on our bark.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

Here the waters lost themselves for many feet in the underflow so common in this land of aimless, uncertain waterways.

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill

This underflow is very characteristic of that part of the State, where it is said, there are many lost rivers flowing beneath the surface, adding one more to the list of Kansas phenomena.

From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Street, Julian

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From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.