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emission

/ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/

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What does emission mean?

noun

  1. Something which is emitted or sent out; issue.
  2. The act of emitting; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation.
  3. A show; a program.

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/ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/

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The emission of all these different types of radiation involves a continual drain of energy from the radio-active body.
A. C. (Albert Charles) SewardDarwin and Modern ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1909
Before that emission, the colony had raised the denomination of its coin, and had, by act of assembly, ordered 5s.
Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3300
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The emission of Sounds.—With many kinds of animals, man included, the vocal organs are efficient in the highest degree as a means of expression.
Charles DarwinThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and AnimalsProject Gutenberg ebook #1227
He came into the room and nodded abstractedly to Wildeve, his lips still parted, and his features excruciatingly strained in the emission of the chorus.
Thomas HardyThe Return of the NativeProject Gutenberg ebook #122
Is it a flame of love like that which lights the Agaric of the olive-tree "to celebrate its nuptials and the emission of its spores"?
Georges Victor LegrosFabre, Poet of ScienceTranslated by Bernard MiallProject Gutenberg ebook #3489