industrial effluent

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• effluent — (adj.) mid 15c., from L. effluentem (see EFFLUENCE (Cf. effluence)). As a noun, from 1859; meaning liquid industrial waste is from 1930 …   Etymology dictionary

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• effluent — I. adjective Etymology: Latin effluent , effluens, present participle of effluere to flow out, from ex + fluere to flow more at fluid Date: 1726 flowing out ; emanating, outgoing < an effluent river > II. noun Dat …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• effluent — [[t]e̱fluənt[/t]] effluents N MASS Effluent is liquid waste material that comes out of factories or sewage works. [FORMAL] The effluent from the factory was dumped into the river... All industrial chemical plants produce waste effluents. Syn:… …   English dictionary

• effluent — A complex waste material, for example industrial waste or sewage discharge, which is often contaminated with detrimental dissolved and suspended materials …   Fisheries — dictionary

• effluent —    a noxious discharge    Literally, anything which flows out but now understood to refer to sewage or untreated industrial waste. Sewage itself started life in this sense as a euphemism, from its original meaning, a draining of water …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• effluent — /ˈɛfluənt / (say efloohuhnt) adjective 1. flowing out or forth. –noun 2. that which flows out or forth; outflow. 3. a stream flowing out of another stream, a lake, etc. 4. the outflow from sewage during purification. 5. liquid industrial waste. 6 …