emission
English
Etymology 1
First attested in 1607. From Middle French émission, from Latin ēmissiō (“sending forth”), from ēmittō (“send out”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mittō (“send”).
Noun
emission (countable and uncountable, plural emissions)
- Something which is emitted or sent out; issue.
- the emission was mostly blood
- 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 274:
- Cymarron's sound resembled the mellow folkie emissions of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and America.
- The act of emitting; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation.
- the emission of light from the sun
- the emission of heat from a fire
- 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99:
- Camden motive power depot has been much criticised for its emission of smoke in a residential neighbourhood and its complete dieselisation is rapidly taking place.
Synonyms
- (act of sending out): issuance
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- acoustic emission
- alpha emission
- atomic emission spectroscopy
- emission allowance
- emission spectrum
- emission theory
- field emission
- field emission display
- field emission microscope
- field emission microscopy
- Lambert's emission law
- low-emission
- neutron emission
- night emission
- positron emission tomography
- secondary emission
- stimulated emission depletion microscope
- stimulated emission depletion microscopy
- zero-emission vehicle
Related terms
Translations
something that is emitted
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act of sending or throwing out
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References
- “emission”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Noun
emission (plural emissions)
- (non-native speakers' English, broadcasting) A show; a program.
- 2002 June 13, Laura Dove, “Documentary about vampires”, in alt.vampyres (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-18:
- All too often, such shows result in destroying any idea that the topic just _could possibly_ be serious. I also discussed with gothic friends, telling they once were interviewed by people claiming to be creating an emission about gothics... just to discover later that the real topic was sects!
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:emission.
Danish
Declension
Declension of emission
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | emission | emissionen | emissioner | emissionerne |
| genitive | emissions | emissionens | emissioners | emissionernes |
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