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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
venting en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The 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:
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(countable, qualifier:oil industry, uncountable) The 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:
Forms
Coordinates
flaring
Deriveds
edge venting
Relateds
sealing
venting en · VERB
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of vent