egressions

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
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
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
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
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