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wastestream

wastestream noun: the flow of waste materials from source to destination.

Noun

wastestream (plural wastestreams)

  1. The flow of waste materials from source to destination.
    • To obtain an estimate of the distribution of radwaste volume into wastestreams, the following assumptions were made: […]1979, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/CR. (issue 1137, page 43)
    • Pollutant parameters found in the "common metals" subcategory of raw wastestream from sampled plants are shown in Table 4.4.2008, Lawrence K. Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, Yung-Tse Hung, Advances in Hazardous Industrial Waste Treatment, page 146

Forms of wastestream

pluralwastestreams

Origin of wastestream

From waste + stream.

Questions about wastestream

What does wastestream mean?
Wastestream means the flow of waste materials from source to destination.
What part of speech is wastestream?
Wastestream is a noun.
What is the plural of wastestream?
The plural of wastestream is wastestreams.

Words near wastestream in the dictionary

  1. wastes of skin
  2. wastes of space
  3. wastes of time
  4. wastes time
  5. wastest
  6. wastestream
  7. wastestreams
  8. wasteth
  9. wastethrift
  10. wastethrifts
  11. wastetime

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