Effluent Definition

ĕflo͝o-ənt
effluents
adjective
A flowing out or forth.
Webster's New World
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noun
effluents
A thing that flows out or forth.
Webster's New World
A stream flowing out of a body of water.
American Heritage Science
An outflow or discharge of liquid waste, as from a sewage system, factory, or nuclear plant.
American Heritage Science
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Other Word Forms of Effluent

Noun

Singular:
effluent
Plural:
effluents

Origin of Effluent

  • Middle English from Latin effluēns effluent- present participle of effluere to flow out ex- ex- fluere to flow bhleu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin effluens, effluentis.

    From Wiktionary

Effluent Sentence Examples

  • The clear effluent flows into the Thames, and the sludge is taken 50 m.

  • By the use of such tanks, however, when the condition of the water demands it, and by passing the effluent water through sand filters when in good condition, the number of microbes is found to be reduced by as much as 97 or even 99%.

  • Irrigation of campus landscaping uses treated effluent water.

  • It is derived from the hills in the neighbourhood of Avellino, and is thought to be the effluent of an underground lake.

  • He regarded, therefore, the section of the contracted vein as the true orifice from which the discharge of water ought to be deduced, and the velocity of the effluent water as due to the whole height of water in the reservoir; and by this means his theory became more conformable to the results of experience, though still open to serious objections.

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