Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of emitting.
- n. Something emitted.
- n. A substance discharged into the air, especially by an internal combustion engine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of emitting, or of sending or throwing out; a putting forth or issuing: as, the emission of light from the sun or other luminous body; the emission of steam from a boiler; the emission of paper money.
- n. That which is emitted, or sent or thrown out.
- n. Specifically— In finance, an amount or quantity of any representative of value issued or put into circulation; an issue: as, the entire emission (of coin, bank-notes, or the like) has been called in or redeemed; the first, second and third emissions of United States notes issued during the civil war.
- n. In physiology, a discharge, especially an involuntary discharge, of semen.
Wiktionary
- n. That which is emitted or sent out.
- n. The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue.
- n. That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)
- n. the act of emitting; causing to flow forth
- n. the release of electrons from parent atoms
- n. any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- n. a substance that is emitted or released
Etymologies
- First attested in 1607. Borrowing from Latin ēmissiō ("sending forth") (also possibly influenced by Middle French emission from the same Latin source) from ēmittō ("send out"), from ex ("from, out of") + mittō ("send"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin ēmissiō, ēmissiōn-, a sending out, from ēmissus, past participle of ēmittere, to send out; see emit. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“• This coherent emission of bioluminescence (having the characteristics of a \ "bio-laser\" emission) was demonstrated by using high technology and methodology, such as a photomultiplier, that is able to determine the Poissonian Photocount Statistics of a \ "biophoton emission\" and the hyperbolic-like relaxation of \ "delayed luminescence\" by analyzing the \ "biophoton emission\" and the”
“The physics of radiation absorption and emission is pretty solid, and the models that are based on this explain the heating.”
“Human caused carbon emission is having SOME effect on our world.”
“Greenhouse emission is down 2.2% this year without their radical policies.”
“India has announced that “will spend some $200 million to protect its forests and will announce how much carbon emission is being captured by its green cover” as part of an emerging U.N. scheme called REDD, in which “developing nations could potentially earn billions of dollars by setting aside and rehabilitating their forests.””
“This is seen as a spike in emission at a certain radio frequency.”
“As I have argued previously, covering transportation fuels in the cap is essential to end our addiction to oil and achieve the long-term emission reductions we need.”
“We should also note that most short-term emission cuts will come from the "low hanging fruit" of promoting energy efficiency and investing in carbon offsets.”
The Huffington Post: David Yarnold: Five Denier Myths about the Climate & Energy Bill
“But, as pointed out by Vanity Fair, China and the US would both commit to long-term emission reductions thanks in large part to a back-channel effort between US and Chinese officials begun long before Obama's trip to Asia.”
“Right now the U.S. is on the verge of a momentous gamble, as reflected in the ACES bill: betting that long-term emission reductions can be achieved via carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).”
David Roberts: Blackout: Dwindling Coal Reserves and the Siren Song of "Clean Coal"
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘emission’.
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TRAN - road transport
Vocabulary of road transport and roadworthiness
motor vehicle, limiter, brake drum, emission, vehicle, bodywork, chassis, vacuum pump, infrared radiation, disassemble, servo, exhaust and 216 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
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AGRI - sustainable agriculture
abiota, aborigines, absorptive capacity, acceptable daily ..., acclimation, acid precipitation, acquired by weeds..., active solar heating, acute, adaptation, additives, aerosol and 447 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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lasers
words associated with LASERS.
( open list, randomness )
NOTE: i'd like to keep the list specific to the LASER itself (Any LASER), and leave out applied sciences..
sp...electromagnetism, light, wavelength, phase, frequency, polarization, emission, optical, spectroscopy, lase, crystal, projection and 61 more...
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
ineffable, septuagenarian, sesquipedalian, argyle, coalescence, profundity, vivisepulture, defenestrate, concatenate, usurp, diatribe, veracious and 461 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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cquarles's Words
idiosyncratic, classification, emission, sound, metadate, spoor, disambiguation, speed, inspire, serendipity, biomimicry, buzzer and 1 more...
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