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Effluent   Listen
noun
Effluent  n.  (Geog.) A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Effluent" Quotes from Famous Books



... her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... perhaps to discover a highway for commerce which should bring the ships of the Nile up to Ujiji, Usowa, and far Marungu. We did not know what we might discover on our voyage to the northern head of the Tanganika; we supposed that we should find the Rusizi to be an effluent of the Tanganika, flowing down to the Albert or the Victoria N'Yanza. We were told by natives and Arabs that the Rusizi ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley



Words linked to "Effluent" :   effluence, waste matter, sewage, wastewater, sewerage, outgoing, outflowing, waste, waste product



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