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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]First attested in 1607. From Middle French émission, from Latin ēmissiō (“sending forth”), from ēmittō (“send out”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mittō (“send”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]- (act of sending out): issuance
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- 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
[edit]Translations
[edit]something that is emitted
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act of sending or throwing out
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References
[edit]- “emission”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from French émission.
Noun
[edit]emission (plural emissions)
- (non-native speakers’ English, broadcasting) A show; a program.
- 2002 June 13, Laura Dove, “Documentary about vampires”, in alt.vampyres[1] (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.
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]emission c (singular definite emissionen, plural indefinite emissioner)
Declension
[edit]Declension of emission
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | emission | emissionen | emissioner | emissionerne |
genitive | emissions | emissionens | emissioners | emissionernes |
Further reading
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Friulian
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[edit]emission f (plural emissions)
Interlingua
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[edit]emission (plural emissiones)
Occitan
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Noun
[edit]emission f (plural emissions)
Piedmontese
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