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emersion
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun emersion has 2 senses
- emersion(n = noun.event) egress - (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse; Array is a kind of reappearance
- emersion(n = noun.act) emergence - the act of emerging; Array is a kind of appearance
is a part of eclipse, occultation
Antonym: immersion
Derived forms verb emerge1, verb emerge3, verb emerge2, verb emerge4, verb emerge5
CIDE DICTIONARY
emersion, n. [Cf. F. émersion. See Emerge.].
- The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties. [1913 Webster]"Their immersion into water and their emersion out of the same." [1913 Webster]
- The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
emersion, n.
1 the act or an instance of emerging.
2 Astron. the reappearance of a celestial body after its eclipse or occultation.
1 the act or an instance of emerging.
2 Astron. the reappearance of a celestial body after its eclipse or occultation.
Etymology
LL emersio (as EMERGE)
ROGET THESAURUS
emersion
Egress
N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.
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