effluence

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the process of flowing or issuing outward

   The valve slowed the effluence of gas from the pressurized chamber.

2. 2
   noun

   something that flows, radiates, or emanates from a source

   Early theorists described light as an effluence from the sun.

From French effluence and Latin effluentia, from effluere, 'to flow out,' formed from ex- ('out') + fluere ('to flow'). It can name either the flowing process or what issues from a source.

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