emission
UK/ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/
More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations
India/ˈe.mɪ.ʃən/
emission noun: something which is emitted or sent out; issue.
Noun (1)
emission (countable and uncountable, plural emissions)
- Something which is emitted or sent out; issue.
- the emission was mostly blood
- Cymarron's sound resembled the mellow folkie emissions of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and America.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 274
- Synonyms:
- issuance
- The act of emitting; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation.
- the emission of light from the sun
- the emission of heat from a fire
Noun (2)
emission (plural emissions)
- A show; a program.
- All too often, such shows result in destroying any idea that the topic just _could possibly_ be serious. I also discussed with gothic friends, telling they once were interviewed by people claiming to be creating an emission about gothics... just to discover later that the real topic was sects!2002 June 13, Laura Dove, “Documentary about vampires”, in alt.vampyres (Usenet), retrieved 18 Dec 2022
emission meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
emission in Hindi
- act of sending or throwing out
- फटना phaṭnā
- something that is emitted
- उत्सर्जन utsarjan
emission in Tamil
- உமிழ்வு, வெளியீடு, காலல், வெளிப்பாடு, கலிதம், வெளிவீச்சு
emission in Bengali
- emission
- বিকিরণ bikirôṇ
emission in Malayalam
- emission
- ബഹിർഗമനം bahiṟgamanaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
- emission in Kannada
- ಸೃಷ್ಟಿ sṛṣṭi
- emission in Sanskrit
- सृष्टि sṛṣṭi, विसृष्टि vísṛṣṭi
- emission in Indonesian
- emisi
- emission in Persian
- گسیلش gosileš, گسیل gosil
Examples of emission in a sentence
- Spurious emissions from the wireless mast were causing nearby electrical equipment to go haywire.
- The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.
- The new emission standards have produced a measurable diminution in air pollution.
Synonyms of emission
Forms of emission
| plural | emissions |
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Origin of emission
First attested in 1607. From Middle French émission, from Latin ēmissiō (“sending forth”), from ēmittō (“send out”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mittō (“send”).
Borrowed from French émission.
Words formed from emission
- acoustic emission
- alpha emission
- atomic emission spectroscopy
- emission allowance
- emissionless
- emission line
- emission nebula
- Emissionsgate
- emission spectrum
- emissions test
- emission theory
- emit
- field emission
- field emission display
- field emission microscope
- field emission microscopy
- fugitive emission
- Lambert's emission law
- low-emission
- neutron emission
- night emission
- nonemission
- photoemission
- positron emission tomography
- reemission
- secondary emission
- stimulated emission depletion microscope
- stimulated emission depletion microscopy
- superemission
- zero-emission
- zero-emission vehicle
Phrases with emission
Words that rhyme with emission
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about emission
- What does emission mean?
- Emission means something which is emitted or sent out; issue.
- What is emission in Hindi?
- Emission in Hindi is फटना (phaṭnā), उत्सर्जन (utsarjan). See Emission meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is emission?
- Emission is a noun.
- How do you pronounce emission?
- Emission is pronounced /ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of emission?
- The plural of emission is emissions.
Words near emission in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: emission (page history and authors); emission (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); বিকিরণ (Bengali) (page history and authors); ബഹിർഗമനം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಸೃಷ್ಟಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); विसृष्टि (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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