effluent
English
Etymology
From French effluent, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin effluens, effluentis.
Adjective
effluent (not comparable)
- Flowing out; outflowing.
- 1860, Benjamin Franklin Barrett, Letters on the Divine Trinity: Addressed to Henry Ward Beecher:
- But while the effluent beams of the sun, and their quickening power in the natural sphere, furnish a good illustration of my idea of the Holy Spirit, I may, perhaps, illustrate the idea still better by a reference to human thoughts and affections […]
Noun
effluent (plural effluents)
- A stream that flows out, such as from a lake or reservoir; an outflow; effluence.
- Sewage water that has been (partially) treated, and is released into a natural body of water; a flow of any liquid waste.
- 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
- One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
Translations
flow of liquid waste
French
Adjective
effluent (feminine effluente, masculine plural effluents, feminine plural effluentes)
Noun
effluent m (plural effluents)
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) effluent
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