Thesaurus: emission

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1. n. The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes.
2. n. That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood.
3. n. the act of emitting; causing to flow forth
4. n. a substance that is emitted or released
5. n. the release of electrons from parent atoms
6. n. any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
7. n. the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)
8. 1. The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes. issue bank notes. 2. That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood. Emission theory (Physics), the theory of Newton, regarding light as consisting of emitted particles or corpuscles. See Corpuscular theory, under Corpuscular.
9. n:100 n. the act of emitting; causing to flow forth n. the release of electrons from parent atoms n. the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)