Step 2. Determine the output of your sprinklers. Set out 6 or more straight sided containers of. the same type, spaced evenly on the lawn. Empty tuna cans, cat food cans, or coffee mugs work well. Turn on the sprinklers for 20 minutes and use a ruler to measure (in inches) the depth of water in. each can. Now determine the average depth in all of the cans. Multiply the average depth by 3 to. determine how many inches of water your sprinkler system applies per hour.
deferment period. The period following the issue of a security during which it cannot be called by the issuer. Also called deferred call period, period of call protection, preferred call period. See also call protection.
syn: defer, delay, postpone imply keeping something from occurring until a future time. To defer is to decide to do something at a more convenient time in the future; it often suggests avoidance: to defer making a payment.delay is sometimes equivalent to defer, but it usu. suggests a hindrance or dilatory tactic: Completion of the work was deferred by bad weather.ynonyms: defer 1, postpone, shelve, suspend. These verbs mean to put off until a later time: deferred paying the bills; postponing our trip; shelved the issue; suspending train service.