Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "European operation creates discharge ", 8 letters:
emission

Alternative clues for the word emission

Word definitions for emission in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 That which is emitted or sent out; issue. 2 The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "something sent forth," from Middle French émission (14c.) and directly from Latin emissionem (nominative emissio ) "a sending out, a projecting, hurling, letting go, releasing," noun of action from past participle stem of emittere "send out" ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Emission is the radiation or radio signal produced or emitted by a radio transmitting station .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of emitting; causing to flow forth [syn: emanation ] a substance that is emitted or released [syn: discharge ] the release of electrons from parent atoms any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body; "the discharge of ...

Usage examples of emission.

The object of the bill submitted to me--namely, that of providing a small note currency during the present suspension--can be fully accomplished by authorizing the issue, as part of any new emission of United States notes made necessary by the circumstances of the country, of notes of a similar character, but of less denomination than five dollars.

This country is flooded with cheap circulars and pamphlets, circulated openly and broadcast, wherein ignorant, pretentious, blatant quacks endeavor to frighten young men who may never have practiced self-abuse, or been guilty of excesses in any way, and yet who experience, now and then at long intervals, nocturnal seminal emissions.

To human eyes, a Calvin cycler was a shiny metal coffin built for a minivan: to the botfly it was a muted tangle of EM emissions.

In the latter case, and when only occurring at long intervals, the emissions are not followed by any perceptible enervating or weakening effects.

The wheezing, eerily sibilant emissions of the flimmers did much to inspire his efforts.

He pierced both eyes of a beast that was part stoat, part gharial, but it continued to writhe silently toward him, flicking its leathery tail from side to side, yellow puslike emissions seeping from around the fletchings of the arrows embedded deep within its sockets.

These premature emissions indicate not only partial impotency, but also that the nerve-centres have become morbidly sensitive by the practice of solitary vice, or marital excesses.

Electrical activity is up, helium emissions up, radon emissions up, foreshocks are occurring, though not directly within our nucleation zone.

He solemnly affirmed that he had never performed the act of self-pollution but once in his life: and yet for years he had been a constant sufferer from nocturnal emissions until his manhood was nearly lost, evidently the result of the mental onanism which he had practiced without imagining the possibility of harm.

Jet after jet shot down her throat as she swallowed and savoured every last drop of his tasty emission.

Royal Powder Works at Spandau, Prussia, frequent ignition of the powder at a certain stage of the process led to an examination of the machinery, when it was found that where, at certain parts, bronze pieces which were soldered were in constant contact with the moist powder, the solder was much corroded and in part entirely destroyed, and that in the joints had collected a substance which, on being scraped out with a chisel, exploded with emission of sparks.

FDG Positron Emission Tomography and other neuroimaging devices for suspected dementia.

In the US this would reduce annual carbon emissions by nearly 200 million tonnes -- a bit less than one tonne for every US citizen.

However, when a single nocturnal emission occasions such detrimental results, what must be the effect of repeated discharges occurring several times a day, or every time an individual relieves his bowels, urinates, or entertains an unvirtuous thought!

Among them glided steel-blue gammavores, feeders on the harder gamma-ray emission from the accretion disk.