- 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. Source: opted
- 2. n. That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood. Source: opted
- 3. n. the act of emitting; causing to flow forth Source: wordnet
- 4. n. a substance that is emitted or released Source: wordnet
- 5. n. the release of electrons from parent atoms Source: wordnet
- 6. n. any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body Source: wordnet
- 7. n. the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe) Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 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) Source: ecdict
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