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Definition of emission:
- That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood.
- 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.
Synonyms:
liberation, arc, procession, venting, spark, sacking, electric arc, sack, waiver, dismission, dismissal, outpouring, discharge, firing off, emanation, rise, radiation, expelling, electric discharge, firing, release, run.
- excretion (part of speech: noun)
- voice (part of speech: noun)
- expulsion (part of speech: noun)
Usage examples:
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H. H is a note of aspiration, and shows that the following vowel must be pronounced with a strong emission of breath, as hat, horse.
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When in August he was about departing for Freiberg to celebrate his marriage, he was seized with an emission of blood, which his physician declared to be mere hemorrhoidal and insignificant.
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Emigration from one region to another, and the emission of colonies to people countries more or less distant from the residence of the parent stock, are common incidents in the history of mankind; but it has not often, perhaps never, happened, that the establishment of colonies should be attempted under circumstances, however beset with present difficulties and dangers, yet so favorable to ultimate success, and so conducive to magnificent results, as those which attended the first settlements on this part of the American continent.