Usually means: Liquid waste discharged into environment.
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  1. effluent: Merriam-Webster
  2. effluent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. effluent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. effluent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. effluent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Effluent, effluent: Wordnik
  7. effluent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. effluent: Wiktionary
  9. effluent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. effluent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. effluent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. effluent: Dictionary.com
  13. effluent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Effluent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Effluent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. effluent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. effluent: Rhymezone
  18. Effluent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. effluent: FreeDictionary.org
  20. effluent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. effluent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. effluent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. effluent: Encyclopedia

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  3. effluent: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Flowing out; outflowing.
noun:  (countable) A stream that flows out, such as from a lake or reservoir; an outflow; effluence.
noun:  Sewage water that has been (partially) treated, and is released into a natural body of water; a flow of any liquid waste.

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