outflow

plural outflows

1. countableuncountableThe process of flowing out.

   Synonyms: effluence, efflux, effluxion

2. countableuncountableA fluid that flows out.

   Borg’s home, which he built with his wife and two sons among tall conifers 33 years ago, overlooks the Nipigon River, an outflow from the lake of the same name.

   December 2020, Tim Folger, “North America’s most valuable resource is at risk”, in National Geographic

3. countableuncountableAny outward movement.

   1 more example

   Both are basins in a limestone country without any outflow above ground: […] both are drained by subterranean channels which the water has worn or which earthquakes have opened up through the rock; and whenever these outlets are silted up or otherwise closed, what at other times is a plain becomes converted for the time being into a lake.

   1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 163

4. countableuncountableastronomyA stream of gaseous material emanating from an active galactic nucleus.
5. countableuncountableThe part of a system that allows material to flow out.
6. countableuncountablesewageSomething that flows out of a sewage treatment plant.

present singular third person outflows · participle present outflowing · participle past outflowed · past outflowed

1. intransitiveTo flow outward.