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How to use effluent in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective, noun

Effluent means flowing out; outflowing. Example: “The landscape was dotted with reservoirs and many many effluent streams.”

Examples of effluent by meaning

nounA stream that flows out, such as from a lake or reservoir; an outflow; effluence.

  • The landscape was dotted with reservoirs and many many effluent streams.

nounSewage or waste water discharged into a natural body of water.

  • Residents have little control over the industrial effluent that pollutes their rivers.
  • Most controversy centers on the effluent from a cellulose plant at Baikalsk.1992 June, “The Pearl of Siberia”, in National Geographic, volume 181, number 6
  • Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.2014 June 14, “It’s a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

More sentences with effluent

  • The water sample to be tested has been spiked with arsenic, antimony, mercury, and lead in quantities commonly found in industrial effluents.From the entry spike
  • This included an unspike oxygen uptake of mixed liquor, and a mixed liquor sample spiked with 10% by volume primary effluent.1980, John M Bell, Proceedings: Purdue University Industrial Waste Conference, page 769. From the entry unspike
  • These plants are being upgraded anyway: suppose the $88 million for the supersewer were instead invested in further upgrading of effluent.1976, San Francisco Bay Water Quality Program, Phase II. From the entry supersewer
  • The liquid is forced to flow over the restriction, and the effluent flow rate is a function of the measured height of liquid above this sharp-edged obstruction, or weirplate.2011, Robert G. Kunz, Environmental Calculations: A Multimedia Approach. From the entry weirplate
  • Partly as a result of "high pressure" advertising techniques urging the regular use of some of these drain-cleaners, waste effluent from many high-density housing areas is strongly alkaline.1974, Rod O’Connor, Charles Mickey, Solving Problems in Chemistry: With Emphasis on Stoichiometry and Equilibrium, New York, N.Y.: Harper…. From the entry drain-cleaner
  • In certain cases, it is possible to entrain enough of the solids continually in the effluent gas stream and then to disentrain them again away from the bed.1963, W. D. Jamrack, Rare metal extraction by chemical engineering techniques. From the entry entrain

Meaning of effluent

  1. adjective Flowing out; outflowing.
  2. noun A stream that flows out, such as from a lake or reservoir; an outflow; effluence.
  3. noun Sewage or waste water discharged into a natural body of water.

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Questions about effluent in a sentence

How do you use effluent in a sentence?
Effluent is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The landscape was dotted with reservoirs and many many effluent streams.”
What is a short sentence with effluent?
“The landscape was dotted with reservoirs and many many effluent streams.”
What does effluent mean?
Effluent means flowing out; outflowing.

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