wellscreen

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noun

A screen used to filter a fluid in a well.

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Meanings

nounwellscreen (plural wellscreens)

plural wellscreens

  1. A screen used to filter a fluid in a well.
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    Brown and Glynn (2003) suspended sacks with calcite and dolomite in wellscreens in acid groundwater and noted dissolution rates that were 1000 times smaller than theoretically expected, which may be related to the high concentrations of heavy metals in the acid mine drainage that was the source of the groundwater.

    2005, C. A. J. Appelo, D[ieke] Postma, Geochemistry, Groundwater and Pollution, 2nd edition, Leiden; London […]: A.A. Balkema Publishers, →ISBN, page 217

Origin

From well + screen.

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APA

wellscreen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wellscreen

MLA

“wellscreen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wellscreen. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wellscreen,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wellscreen.

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