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emission
/ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/
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What does emission mean?
noun
- Something which is emitted or sent out; issue.
- The act of emitting; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation.
- A show; a program.
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The emission of all these different types of radiation involves a continual drain of energy from the radio-active body.
Before that emission, the colony had raised the denomination of its coin, and had, by act of assembly, ordered 5s.
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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.
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.
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"?