effluent
English
editEtymology
editFrom French effluent, from Latin effluens, effluentis.
Adjective
editeffluent (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
editeffluent (countable and uncountable, plural effluents)
- (countable) 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
editFrench
editPronunciation
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Adjective
editeffluent (feminine effluente, masculine plural effluents, feminine plural effluentes)
Noun
editeffluent m (plural effluents)
Further reading
edit- “effluent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
editVerb
editeffluent
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