liquid waste, especially chemicals produced by factories, or sewage Topics The environmentc2流出物,流出液(尤指工厂排出的化学废料) Oxford Collocations DictionaryEffluent is used after these nouns:- sewage
Word Originlate Middle English (in the adjective sense ‘flowing out’): from Latin effluent- ‘flowing out’, from the verb effluere ‘flow out’, from ex- ‘out’ + fluere ‘to flow’. The noun dates from the mid 19th cent.