effluent

Latin effluens, effluentis.

effluent (not comparable)

1. Flowing out; outflowing.
   • 1860, Benjamin Franklin Barrett, Letters on the Divine Trinity: Addressed to Henry Ward Beecher

     But while the effluent beams of the sun, and their quickening power in the natural sphere, furnish a good illustration of my idea of the Holy Spirit, I may, perhaps, illustrate the idea still better by a reference to human thoughts and affections […]

effluent (plural effluents)

1. A stream that flows out, such as from a lake or reservoir; an outflow; effluence.
2. Sewage water that has been (partially) treated, and is released into a natural body of water; a flow of any liquid waste.
   • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:

     One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

effluent (feminine singular effluente, masculine plural effluents, feminine plural effluentes)

1. effluent

effluent m (plural effluents)

1. effluent

effluent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of effluō