"byflow" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1966, Sedimentation - Issue 2, page 2:",
          "text": "Runoff measurements tended to be slightly inaccurate due to underflow or byflow of small but rapid streams flowing in solid or pebbly mountainous channels.",
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          "ref": "1966, Josef D. Zimmerman, Irrigation, page 326:",
          "text": "The internal overflow steel dam should be used for this purpose to allow byflow. With a closed-type riser it should be possible to couple the suction pipe to the hydrant and, of course, no byflow arrangement is required.",
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          "ref": "1979, American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, volume 12, page 95:",
          "text": "Why not cut St. Leonard's-on-Sea, which is a confounded Hastings circuited by a byflow of parade, and come straight here to Bournemouth — really one of the prettiest of all the English Sea-Sides, with pines growing to the sands.",
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          "ref": "1989, Gerhard Schaefer, Systems Thinking in Biology Education, page 10:",
          "text": "In other words, in the main flow it is the physical variable itself, the \"substance\", that matters; in the by-flow it is just information.",
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        "That which flows by, near, or around; an ancillary or secondary flow."
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