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emanant

emanant adjective: flowing forth; emanating or issuing from or as if from a source.

Adjective

emanant (comparative more emanant, superlative most emanant)

  1. Flowing forth; emanating or issuing from or as if from a source.
  2. Passing forth into a physical act, or making itself apparent by an effect. Compare immanent.
    • He had an emanant volition.

Noun

emanant (plural emanants)

  1. The result of operating any number of times upon a quantic with the operator (x'd/dx + y'd/dy + ... + z'd/dz).
    Synonyms:
    transeunt

Synonyms of emanant

Forms of emanant

Adjective
comparativemore emanant
superlativemost emanant
Noun
pluralemanants

Origin of emanant

Ultimately from Latin present participle ēmānāns, ēmānantis, from verb ēmānō (“to flow out, arise”), from ex- (“out of, from”) + mānō.

Questions about emanant

What does emanant mean?
Emanant means flowing forth; emanating or issuing from or as if from a source.
What part of speech is emanant?
Emanant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near emanant in the dictionary

  1. emamectin
  2. Emami
  3. Emamis
  4. Emamqoli
  5. Eman
  6. emanant
  7. emanata
  8. emanate
  9. emanated
  10. emanates
  11. emanatest

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