effluent
noun/ˈefluənt/
/ˈefluənt/
[uncountable, countable] (formal)- liquid waste, especially chemicals produced by factories, or sewageTopics The environmentc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryEffluent is used after these nouns:
- sewage
Word Originlate Middle English (in the adjective sense ‘flowing out’): from Latin effluent- ‘flowing out’, from the verb effluere ‘flow out’, from ex- ‘out’ + fluere ‘to flow’. The noun dates from the mid 19th cent.Definitions on the go
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