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- noun Plural form of
emittance .
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The idea here is that this puts a price on pollution and really incentivizes companies to lower their pollution emittances (sic) in a dramatic way because otherwise they are real financial penalties for them.
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The mind that had taken him had been very thorough; it had concealed its vibrations from me until the last possible second, and though I sent out telepathic emittances, hoping something would relay back to me that would help me pinpoint the mind's location, I could pick up nothing.
An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979
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