effluent

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Etymology

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From French effluent, from Latin effluens, effluentis.

Adjective

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effluent (not comparable)

  1. 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

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effluent (countable and uncountable, plural effluents)

  1. (countable) A stream that flows out, such as from a lake or reservoir; an outflow; effluence.
  2. 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.

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French

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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effluent (feminine effluente, masculine plural effluents, feminine plural effluentes)

  1. effluent

Noun

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effluent m (plural effluents)

  1. effluent

Further reading

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Latin

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Verb

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effluent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of effluō