effluent

Definitions

General English

• noun liquid waste, especially from factories or industrial processes

Agriculture

• noun liquid, semisolid or gas waste from industrial processes or material such as slurry or silage effluent from a farm

Construction

• In sanitary engineering, the liquid sewage discharged as waste, as in the discharge from a septic tank.
• Generally, the discharged gas, liquid, or dust by-product of a process.

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Contexts for “effluent”

4 definitions in context
• General English
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