venting

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Verb

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venting

  1. present participle and gerund of vent

Noun

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venting (countable and uncountable, plural ventings)

  1. The act by which something is vented.
    • 2007, Samuel Upton Newtan, Nuclear War I and Other Major Nuclear Disasters of the 20th Century, page 94:
      It wasn't until 1978 that the general public learned that nuclear ventings were not unusual.
  2. (oil industry) The release of unwanted gas directly into the atmosphere.
    Coordinate term: flaring
    • 2023 May 9, Damian Carrington, “‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      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.

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