Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Flowing out or forth.
- noun Something that flows out or forth, especially.
- noun A stream flowing out of a body of water.
- noun An outflow from a sewer or sewage system.
- noun A discharge of liquid waste, as from a factory or nuclear plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Flowing out; emanating.
- noun That which flows out or issues forth.
- noun Specifically, in geography, a stream that flows out of another stream or out of a lake: as, the Atchafalaya is an effluent of the Mississippi river.
- noun In mathematics, a covariant of a quantic of degree mn in i variables, the covariant being of degree m and in p variables, where p is the number of permutations that can be obtained by dividing n into i parts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Flowing out.
- noun (Geog.) A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Flowing out;
outflowing . - noun A stream that flows out, such as from a lake or reservoir; an
outflow ;effluence . - noun Sewage water that has been (partially) treated, and is released into a natural body of water; a flow of any liquid waste.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective that is flowing outward
- noun water mixed with waste matter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Noise rose from below like effluent from a blocked toilet and the light was so dim the waitress had to check the reservation book with a torch.
Restaurant review: Platform Jay Rayner 2010
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There have been a number of bottling plants in India where the level of the water supply has dramatically dropped and in some cases there have been studies showing that effluent from the plants has dumped cadmium, chromium and other carcinogens onto the land of those who live in the community.
Tara Lohan: The Coke Machine: New Book Reveals the Dirty Truth Behind Coca-Cola Tara Lohan 2010
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There have been a number of bottling plants in India where the level of the water supply has dramatically dropped and in some cases there have been studies showing that effluent from the plants has dumped cadmium, chromium and other carcinogens onto the land of those who live in the community.
Tara Lohan: The Coke Machine: New Book Reveals the Dirty Truth Behind Coca-Cola Tara Lohan 2010
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There have been a number of bottling plants in India where the level of the water supply has dramatically dropped and in some cases there have been studies showing that effluent from the plants has dumped cadmium, chromium and other carcinogens onto the land of those who live in the community.
Tara Lohan: The Coke Machine: New Book Reveals the Dirty Truth Behind Coca-Cola Tara Lohan 2010
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There have been a number of bottling plants in India where the level of the water supply has dramatically dropped and in some cases there have been studies showing that effluent from the plants has dumped cadmium, chromium and other carcinogens onto the land of those who live in the community.
Tara Lohan: The Coke Machine: New Book Reveals the Dirty Truth Behind Coca-Cola Tara Lohan 2010
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There have been a number of bottling plants in India where the level of the water supply has dramatically dropped and in some cases there have been studies showing that effluent from the plants has dumped cadmium, chromium and other carcinogens onto the land of those who live in the community.
Tara Lohan: The Coke Machine: New Book Reveals the Dirty Truth Behind Coca-Cola Tara Lohan 2010
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Also, if the grass courts were fertilized with fecal effluent from the Canada geese and Nutria overpopulating all of our public parks and golf courses, it would be a real "win-win" for nature and the economy.
Ain't nothin' like the real thing, baby (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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There have been a number of bottling plants in India where the level of the water supply has dramatically dropped and in some cases there have been studies showing that effluent from the plants has dumped cadmium, chromium and other carcinogens onto the land of those who live in the community.
Tara Lohan: The Coke Machine: New Book Reveals the Dirty Truth Behind Coca-Cola Tara Lohan 2010
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There have been a number of bottling plants in India where the level of the water supply has dramatically dropped and in some cases there have been studies showing that effluent from the plants has dumped cadmium, chromium and other carcinogens onto the land of those who live in the community.
Tara Lohan: The Coke Machine: New Book Reveals the Dirty Truth Behind Coca-Cola Tara Lohan 2010
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The effluent is pumped into drainage ditches. visualjohn
whichbe commented on the word effluent
Tee-hee! This word sounds so much like affluent.
August 20, 2008
kewpid commented on the word effluent
Some people are both.
November 12, 2008
cutlery commented on the word effluent
"alleys stank of effluent" (Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, 048.1)
January 24, 2010