venting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of vent

plural ventings

1. countableuncountableThe act by which something is vented.

   It wasn't until 1978 that the general public learned that nuclear ventings were not unusual.

   2007, Samuel Upton Newtan, Nuclear War I and Other Major Nuclear Disasters of the 20th Century, page 94

2. countableuncountableoil industryThe release of unwanted gas directly into the atmosphere.

   Separate research suggests a switch from the flaring of methane to venting may be behind some of these vast outpourings. […] Venting simply releases the invisible methane into the air unburned, which, until recent developments in satellite technology, had been hard to detect.

   2023 May 9, Damian Carrington, “‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed”, in The Guardian, →ISSN