Definition of Emission

E`mis´sion
n.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.
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.


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blowout, discharge, disgorgement, effusion, egestion, ejaculation, ejection, elimination, emanation, emergence, emersion, eructation, eruption, excretion, expulsion, extravasation, extrusion, exudation, flow, flux, issuance, issue, jet, outburst, outpour, secretion, spout, spurt, squirt, surfacing, transudation, vent

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