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extramission

extramission noun: emission.

Noun

extramission (plural extramissions)

  1. (obsolete) Emission.
    • Aristotle, Alhazen, Vitello, and others [...] hold, that sight is made by reception, and not by extramission; by receiving the rays of the object into the eye, and not be sending any out.1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.7

Forms of extramission

pluralextramissions

Origin of extramission

From Latin extra mittere.

Questions about extramission

What does extramission mean?
Extramission means emission.
What part of speech is extramission?
Extramission is a noun.
What is the plural of extramission?
The plural of extramission is extramissions.

Words near extramission in the dictionary

  1. extrametric
  2. extrametrical
  3. extrametricality
  4. extrametrically
  5. extrametropolitan
  6. extramission
  7. extramissions
  8. extramitochondrial
  9. extramitochondrially
  10. extramodal
  11. extramodular

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