egression

Noun

egression (plural egressions)

1. The act of going; egress.
   • That so thou mayest have a triumphal egression1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass
   • Such things as these which are extraordinary egressions and transvolations beyond the ordinary course of an even piety, God loves to reward with an extraordinary favour […]1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC
2. A calculated version of the wave field that emanated from a specified location at a specified time.
   • The egression (H₊) is simply the time reverse of Equation (1).2008, Laurent Gizon, Paul S. Cally, John Leibacher, Helioseismology, Asteroseismology, and MHD Connections, page 344
   • Similarly applied to the acoustic egression, <[H₊(r,t)]²>, the result is an "egression-power map".2011, Freddy Monroy, Holography: Different Fields of Application, page 84
3. The location of a feature on an ammonite fossil outward from the line of the shell's spiral.
   • The reason for this lies in the fact that a wide-shell-band, running along the margin of the egression, is superposed directly upon the shell of the preceding whorl.1899, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, page 11
   • According to Klinger and Kennedy (1989), the hoplitoidean Placenticeras kaffarium displays a rather strong umbilical egression, which gives it a scaphitoid adult morphology.2015, Christian Klug, Dieter Korn, Kenneth De Baets, Ammonoid Paleobiology: From anatomy to ecology, page 288
4. A centralized or top-down organization.
   • Experience and the will of one person were becoming an increasingly more determining moment in the practice of the entire collective: a stable egression was developing.1980, Aleksandr Bogdanov, Essays in Tektology, page 169
   • The most obvious example of egression was the relationship of the brain to the sensory organs and other nerve centres of the body.2018, James White, Red Hamlet, page 305
5. A legitimate implication an existing law.
   • This conclusion is an egression from federalism principles.1982, University of Detroit Journal of Urban Law - Volume 60, page 260
   • The tenet, accordingly, has some claim to stand as an egression of "natural" right, even when "natural" is taken in an evolutionary sense.2023, Niccolò Machiavelli, James Allen, William Walker Atkinson, The Science of Prosperity