Crossword clues for effluent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Effluent \Ef"flu*ent\, a. [L. effluens, -entis, p. pr. of
effluere to flow out; ex + fluere to flow: cf. F. effluent.
See Fluent.]
Flowing out; as, effluent beams.
--Parnell.
Effluent \Ef"flu*ent\, n. (Geog.) A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Latin effluentem "flowing out" (see effluence). As a noun, "that which flows out," from 1859; specific meaning "liquid industrial waste" is from 1930.
Wiktionary
a. Flowing out; outflowing. n. 1 A stream that flows out, such as from a lake or reservoir; an outflow; effluence. 2 Sewage water that has been (partially) treated, and is released into a natural body of water; a flow of any liquid waste.
WordNet
adj. that is flowing outward [syn: outflowing]
n. water mixed with waste matter [syn: wastewater, sewer water]
Wikipedia
Effluent is an outflowing of water or gas from a natural body of water, or from a manmade structure.
Effluent, in engineering, is the stream exiting a chemical reactor.
Effluent is defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as "wastewater - treated or untreated - that flows out of a treatment plant, sewer, or industrial outfall. Generally refers to wastes discharged into surface waters". The Compact Oxford English Dictionary defines effluent as "liquid waste or sewage discharged into a river or the sea".
Effluent in the artificial sense is in general considered to be water pollution, such as the outflow from a sewage treatment facility or the wastewater discharge from industrial facilities. An effluent sump pump, for instance, pumps waste from toilets installed below a main sewage line.
In the context of waste water treatment plants, effluent that has been treated is sometimes called secondary effluent, or treated effluent. This cleaner effluent is then used to feed the bacteria in biofilters.
In the context of a thermal power station, the output of the cooling system may be referred to as the effluent cooling water, which is noticeably warmer than the environment. Effluent only refers to liquid discharge.
In sugar beet processing, effluent is often settled in water tanks that allow the mud-contaminated water to settle. The mud sinks to the bottom, leaving the top section of water clear, free to be pumped back into the river or be reused in the process again.
The Mississippi River's effluent of fresh water is so massive (7,000 to 20,000 m/s, or 200,000 to 700,000 ft/s) that a plume of fresh water is detectable by the naked eye from space, even as it rounds Florida and up to the coast of Georgia.
Usage examples of "effluent".
They cry and they crow and they make false images to mirror their imaginary affections, as if the effluent of their tiny minds could alter the course of aeonic destiny.
Gobi saw that the Bangladeshis had perfected a technique for packing the energy effluents into long, sausage-shaped containers that they wore around their necks and down their backs.
Felix was sitting slumped on one of the wooden chairs, his legs out in front of him, soft boots stained with mud and effluent from the gutters that ran down the centre of most of the smaller streets.
Down near the place where the Wanderelle valley ended and the river flowed out onto the coastal plain, she and Ezratah had another violent argument--this time over the filthy effluent of the upstream woolworks, which emptied into the river.
It was around this time that Matthew became really conscious of the danger of the river water, for it was into this that the effluent flowed, that cattle paddled and went to drink, that cats and dogs were thrown, and it was from this also that most of the hamlets and the villages drew their water supplies.
Leia was showing Isolder the oro woods of Alderaanforests where the graceful, clean-limbed trees climbed hundreds of feet into the air, but every inch of the trees' bark was covered with iridescent lichen colonies that glimmered in colors of cinnabar, violet, and canarylike the effluent of rainbows.
Plagued with flies and dragonlice and the reek of city effluent in summer, greyed with smog and ice in winter, even the foulest factories turn their backs away.
Maybe she'd like the San Juan Guayama and Ybucoa areas of Puerto Rico where Commonwealth Oil, Union Carbide, Phillips Petroleum, and Sun Oil have created another new industrial wasteland where the toxic wastes have killed the vegetation, where hot oil effluents are discharged into the sea and flow westward along the shoreline in a black roiling stench, killing all sea life.
Carpets of red algae, the produce of sewage, fertilizer and effluent from cows, pigs and industrial waste, are, at times, visible along certain parts of the coast, while the dead fish and molluscs, starved by these algae of oxygen, are washed up onto the shore.
And secondly, sure you can come with me, if you don't mind crawling through the septic tank and up nine metres of effluent pipe.
From there tidal currents swept the putrid effluent into the Atlantic and out over the endangered offshore reef.