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extramissions

extramissions is the plural of extramission.

Meaning of extramission

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

Questions about extramissions

What is extramissions the plural of?
Extramissions is the plural of extramission.

Words near extramissions in the dictionary

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

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