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ULLAGE, com. law. When a cask is gauged, what it wants of being full is called ullage.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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It was an ullage explosion caused by enemy fire that took down the C130k aircraft in 2005.

Host of failings left 10 servicemen dead; Plane hit after years of safety advice ignored

Had the aircraft's wing tanks been fitted with ESF (explosion-suppressant foam), which stops ullage explosions, the men may well be alive today, the inquest was told.

Coroner blasts military over dead servicemen

From time to time, the ullage (headspace in the barrel) that is produced by this evaporation must be displaced by topping the barrel up with some wine from the same lot.

Chapter 3: The winery--from grapes to bottle

In one example, Texas A&M University used the company's Energy Chain aboard NASA's Reduced Gravity aircraft the Weightless Wonder--to test the effects of acceleration on spatial orientation of liquid and ullage (gas/vapor) in a scale model propellant tank.

Saying Y.E.S. to students: young engineers are fostered by company support program

By reducing the ullage in the packs through the new size, they appear to be more filled than did the former packages.

Leader of the frozen retail pack

but in other words or phrases, like tHE ADvent, flaSK ULLage,

A recipe for complete dummies

This detects ullage that might freeze within the keg during cold winter, and reroutes kegs containing frozen beer for further processing.

Look closely at the kegs above, and you'll see they're embossed with the Anheuser-Busch name

Our Country's Peril and Our Duty, A Sermon Preached in the Presbyterian Church, Amsterdam Ullage, April 28th 1861 (New York, 1861), 1.

"The sport of folly and the prize of treason": confederate property seizures and the northern home front in the secession crisis

In addition, the level of the wine-the ullage, taken as an indicator of provenance-is recorded for some wines.

THE RATE OF RETURN ON INVESTMENT IN WINE

'Once that hatch cover gave way, water would enter the No 1 hatch, very rapidly filling the large ullage space above the cargo and thereby causing the vessel to go still further down by the bow.'

Derbyshire crew is cleared campaign; Peter McGrath, chaplain to the Seamen's Mission in Liverpool, and Paul Lambert, chairman of the Derbyshire Family Association, outside The Royal Courts of Justice in London

Julie Sawyer, for Lever Brothers Ltd, said: "We leave a space at the top, which we call the ullage, so we are able to offer 10 per cent more powder as a special offer without having to change the packaging.

BOXING CLEVER!; The packaging looks great - but are you really getting value for money?

The critical limitation of most prior TRM work has been the necessity of precisely calculating ullage, or the thermal expansion of the silicone rubber in order to provide the desired pressure.