effluent
Meaning of effluent
- liquid waste or sewage discharged into a river or the sea.
industrial effluent
contamination with trade effluents
late Middle English (in the adjective sense ‘flowing out’): from Latin effluent- ‘flowing out’, from the verb effluere (see effluence). The noun dates from the mid 19th century.
Information about effluent
- It is a name.
- The plural form of effluent is: effluents.
- Languages in which effluent is used:
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Hyphenation of effluent
ef-flu-ent
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- effluent is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
effluent synonyms
Meaning outflowing:
Meaning wastewater:
Meaning waste water and excrement conveyed in sewers:
Meaning an unpleasant or harmful odour or discharge:
Meaning a large amount of money, liquid, or people that moves or is transferred out of a place:
Meaning the action of discharging someone from a hospital or from the armed forces or police:
Meaning the production and discharge of something, especially gas or radiation:
Meaning a substance that pollutes something, especially water or the atmosphere:
Meaning the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects:
Translation of effluent
Words that rhyme with effluent
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