venting
English edit
Verb edit
venting
- present participle and gerund of vent
Noun edit
venting (countable and uncountable, plural ventings)
- 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.
- (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.