Effluent Synonyms

ĕflo͝o-ənt
That is flowing outward
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. emanating
  2. issuing forth
  3. outflowing
  4. profluent
  5. outbound
  6. outward-bound
Water mixed with waste matter
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. wastewater
  2. sewer water

Words Related to Effluent

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. flowing
  2. leachate
  3. sludge
  4. sewage
  5. waste-water
  6. surface-water
  7. wastewaters
  8. minewater
  9. slurry
  10. biosolids

Effluent Sentence Examples

  • The clear effluent flows into the Thames, and the sludge is taken 50 m.

  • By the use of such tanks, however, when the condition of the water demands it, and by passing the effluent water through sand filters when in good condition, the number of microbes is found to be reduced by as much as 97 or even 99%.

  • Irrigation of campus landscaping uses treated effluent water.

  • It is derived from the hills in the neighbourhood of Avellino, and is thought to be the effluent of an underground lake.

  • He regarded, therefore, the section of the contracted vein as the true orifice from which the discharge of water ought to be deduced, and the velocity of the effluent water as due to the whole height of water in the reservoir; and by this means his theory became more conformable to the results of experience, though still open to serious objections.

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