ventings

Noun

venting (countable and uncountable, plural ventings)

1. The act by which something is vented.
   • It wasn't until 1978 that the general public learned that nuclear ventings were not unusual.2007, Samuel Upton Newtan, Nuclear War I and Other Major Nuclear Disasters of the 20th Century, page 94
2. (oil industry) The release of unwanted gas directly into the atmosphere.
   • Separate research suggests a switch from the flaring of methane to venting may be behind some of these vast outpourings. […] Venting simply releases the invisible methane into the air unburned, which, until recent developments in satellite technology, had been hard to detect.2023 May 9, Damian Carrington, “‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed”, in The Guardian, →ISSN