Outflow
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Outflow may refer to:
  • Capital outflow
    Capital Outflow
    Capital outflow is an economic term describing capital flowing out of a particular economy. Outflowing capital can be caused by any number of economic or political reasons but can often originate from instability in either sphere....

     - an economic term describing capital flowing out of (or leaving) a particular economy.
  • Bipolar outflow
    Bipolar outflow
    A bipolar outflow represents two continuous flows of gas from the poles of a star. Bipolar outflows may be associated with protostars , or with evolved post-AGB stars ....

     in astronomy represents two continuous flows of gas from the poles of a star.
  • Discharge (hydrology)
    Discharge (hydrology)
    In hydrology, discharge is the volume rate of water flow, including any suspended solids , dissolved chemical species and/or biologic material , which is transported through a given cross-sectional area...

     - In hydrology, the outflow or discharge of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time.
  • Outflow (meteorology)
    Outflow (meteorology)
    Outflow, in meteorology, is air that flows outwards from a storm system. It is associated with ridging, or anticyclonic flow. In the low levels of the troposphere, outflow radiates from thunderstorms in the form of a wedge of rain-cooled air, which is visible as a thin rope-like cloud on weather...

    , in meteorology, is air that flows outwards from a thunderstorm.
  • Outflow boundary
    Outflow boundary
    An outflow boundary, also known as a gust front, is a storm-scale or mesoscale boundary separating thunderstorm-cooled air from the surrounding air; similar in effect to a cold front, with passage marked by a wind shift and usually a drop in temperature and a related pressure jump...

    in atmospheric science means thunderstorm-cooled air (outflow) from the surrounding air.
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