effluent

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Etymology

From French effluent, from Latin effluens, effluentis. By surface analysis, e- +‎ fluent.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛfluːənt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛfluənt/

Adjective

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 […]

Derived terms

• noneffluent

Noun

effluent (countable and uncountable, plural effluents)

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

   The landscape was dotted with reservoirs and many many effluent streams.

2. (uncountable) Sewage or waste water discharged into a natural body of water.

   Synonym: discharge

   Residents have little control over the industrial effluent that pollutes their rivers.

   • 1992 June, “The Pearl of Siberia”, in National Geographic, volume 181, number 6:

     Still remarkably clean, Baikal nevertheless feels the effects of air and water pollution from various sources, including industries around Irkutsk and from the Selenga river, which provides half the water flowing into Baikal. Most controversy centers on the effluent from a cellulose plant at Baikalsk.

   • 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

Bulgarian: водосток (bg) m (vodostok) Catalan: efluent m Chinese: Mandarin: 廢水 / 废水 (zh) (fèishuǐ), 污水 (zh) (wūshuǐ), 髒水 / 脏水 (zh) (zāngshuǐ) Finnish: jätevesi (fi) French: effluent (fr) Italian: effluente m Maori: waiparakaingaki Spanish: efluente m, vertido (es) m

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

1. effluent

Noun

effluent m (plural effluents)

1. effluent

Further reading

• “effluent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

effluent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of effluō