A leakage occurs when fluid is lost through a leak. Leakage may also refer to: *

Leakage (chemistry) A leak is a way (usually an opening) for fluid to escape a container or fluid-containing system, such as a tank or a ship's hull, through which the contents of the container can escape or outside matter can enter the container. Leaks are usuall ...

, a process in which material is lost through holes or defects in containers *

Leakage (economics) In economics, a leakage is a diversion of funds from some iterative process. For example, in the Keynesian depiction of the circular flow of income and expenditure, leakages are the non-consumption uses of income, including saving, taxes, and im ...

Carbon leakage Carbon leakage occurs when there is an increase in greenhouse gas emissions in one country as a result of an emissions reduction by a second country with a strict climate policy. Carbon leakage may occur for a number of reasons: * If the emission ...

or emissions leakage, whereby another country increases its greenhouse gas emissions in response to a unilateral climate policy * Leakage (electronics) **

Crosstalk (electronics) In electronics, crosstalk is any phenomenon by which a signal transmitted on one circuit or channel of a transmission system creates an undesired effect in another circuit or channel. Crosstalk is usually caused by undesired capacitive, induc ...

, also known as Leakage, where signals are picked up by an unintended device ** Spill (audio), where audio from one source is picked up by a microphone intended for a different source *

Leakage (machine learning) In statistics and machine learning, leakage (also known as data leakage or target leakage) is the use of information in the model training process which would not be expected to be available at prediction time, causing the predictive scores (metr ...

Leakage (semiconductors) In electronics, leakage is the gradual transfer of electrical energy across a boundary normally viewed as insulating, such as the spontaneous discharge of a charged capacitor, magnetic coupling of a transformer with other components, or flow of cu ...

Leakage (retail) Retail leakage occurs when local people spend a larger amount of money on goods than local businesses report in sales, usually due to people traveling to a neighboring town to buy goods. Retail sales leakage occurs when there is unsatisfied demand ...

Leakage effect In the study of tourism, the leakage is the way in which revenue generated by tourism is lost to other countries' economies. Leakage may be so significant in some developing countries that it partially neutralizes the money generated by tourism. Me ...

, the loss of tourist revenue from a country * Memory leak, in computer science * Spectral leakage, in signal processing

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