2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Emission \E*mis"sion\, n. [L. emissio: cf F. ['e]mission. See
{Emit}.]
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
emission
n 1: the act of emitting [syn: {emanation}]
2: a substance that is emitted or released [syn: {discharge}]
3: any of several bodily processes by which substances go out
of the body; "the discharge of pus" [syn: {discharge}, {expelling}]
4: the release of electrons from parent atoms
5: the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)
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