adj
Meaning 1
Flowing out; outflowing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
effluent
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈɛfluːənt/
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US: /ˈɛfluənt/
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CMU ARPABET: EH1 F L UW0 AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A stream that flows out, such as from a lake or reservoir; an outflow; effluence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
- The landscape was dotted with reservoirs and many many effluent streams.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Sewage or waste water discharged into a natural body of water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- Residents have little control over the industrial effluent that pollutes their rivers.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: discharge
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
that is flowing outward
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: outflowing
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
water mixed with waste matter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wastewater, sewer water
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product
History
Etymology
From French effluent, from Latin effluens, effluentis. By surface analysis, e- + fluent.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: водосток (vodostok) — flow of liquid waste
- Catalan: efluent — flow of liquid waste
- Chinese Mandarin: 廢水 /废水 (fèishuǐ) — flow of liquid waste
- Chinese Mandarin: 污水 (wūshuǐ) — flow of liquid waste
- Chinese Mandarin: 髒水 /脏水 (zāngshuǐ) — flow of liquid waste
- Finnish: jätevesi — flow of liquid waste
- French: effluent — flow of liquid waste
- Italian: effluente — flow of liquid waste
- Māori: waiparakaingaki — flow of liquid waste
- Spanish: efluente — flow of liquid waste
- Spanish: vertido — flow of liquid waste