cusec
Abbreviation, used in Engineering, etc., of ‘cubic foot per second’.
| 1913 Thomas & Watt Improvem. Rivers (ed. 2) i. i. 46 The abbreviation ‘second-feet’ which is frequently used in America instead of ‘cubic feet per second’, has the equivalent of ‘cusecs’ among the Anglo-Indian engineers. 1915 C. E. Housden Is Venus Inhabited? 37 We should need a continuous flow of 20,000,000 cusecs. 1960 Times 25 July 11/6 A rise in river-flow from three cusecs in dry weather to 55,000 in wet. |