Sentence examples for influent from inspiring English sources
noun
A stream which flows into another stream or lake; general for fluids flowing in.
Influent (water flowing in) is uniformly distributed as it enters a tank.
The septic tank serves as a primary sedimentation and sludge storage chamber, removing most of the settleable and floating material from the influent wastewater.
If the heat is injected at the surface it will spread initially according to the momentum of the influent and the speed and direction of ambient surface currents.
In this situation, the subject "becomes a pure screen a pure absorption and re-absorption surface of the influent networks" (1988: 27).
Temperature values at the surface, adjacent to the influent-heat source, may be raised to a very high level as much as several centigrade degrees.
Silica also is present in lake waters, and, as with the other nutrients, it is introduced in influents and to some extent from the sediments.
Sources of nitrogen compounds include influents to the lake (the most important source), fixation in the lake, and precipitation.
