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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ejection \E*jec"tion\, n. [L. ejectio: cf. F. ['e]jection.]
The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. ``Vast ejection of ashes.''
--Eustace. ``The ejection of a word.''
--Johnson.(Physiol.) The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.
The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Middle French ejection and directly from Latin eiectionem (nominative eiectio) "a casting out, banishment, exile," noun of action from past participle stem of eicere (see eject). The jet pilot's ejection seat (also ejector seat) is from 1945.
Wiktionary
n. The act of ejecting.
WordNet
n. the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting [syn: expulsion, projection, forcing out]
the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school" [syn: exclusion, expulsion, riddance]
Wikipedia
In sports, an ejection (also known as dismissal, sending-off, or disqualification) is the removal of a participant from a contest due to a violation of the sport's rules. The exact violations that lead to an ejection vary depending upon the sport, but common causes for ejection include unsportsmanlike conduct, violent acts against another participant that are beyond the sport's generally accepted standards for such acts, abuse against officials, violations of the sport's rules that the contest official deems to be egregious, or the use of an illegal substance to better a players game. Most sports have provisions that allow players to be ejected, and many allow for the ejection of coaches, managers, or other non-playing personnel.
The decision to eject a participant usually lies with one or more officials present at the contest (e.g., referees or umpires). In addition to removal from the contest, many sports leagues provide additional sanctions against participants who have been ejected, such as monetary fines or suspensions from future contests.
When the offender is ejected, he/she must leave the immediate playing area; in most cases, this means going to the locker room or other part of the venue out of sight of the playing area, or in extreme cases, leaving the facility grounds. In many youth sports leagues, ejected players are required to stay with their coach in the team area, or at least be supervised by an adult at whatever location the player is required to go. If a participant refuses to cooperate with an ejection, additional sanctions may be levied, such as forfeiture of the contest, monetary fines, or suspensions.
Ejection may refer to the following:
- Ejection seat, safety device typically used to escape an aircraft in-flight.
- Ejection (sports), the act of officially removing someone from a game.
- Acoustic droplet ejection, a method of moving fluid using ultrasound.
- Coronal mass ejection, ejection of material from a sun's corona.
- Ejection fraction, the fraction of blood pumped with each heart beat.
- Ejecta, particles ejected from an impact crater or volcanic eruption.
- In computing, when removable media is physically pushed out of a floppy disk drive or optical disc drive, or more generally disconnected.
- Great Ejection, an event in England in 1662 when non-conforming ministers lost their positions.
Usage examples of "ejection".
As the technician enabled his ejection seat, his weapons officer strapped himself into the small aft cockpit.
We know that a fraction of the ejected debris stays cool throughout the processes of impact, ejection, and interception by another world.
Beetle ejected at a forty-five-degree angle from the cockpit, fire blazing under the ejection seat as the rocket drove him through the air.
Just at the right instant, Fastball yanked down hard on the ejection handle.
Morland mentions the ejection of numerous lumbricoid worms from the mouth.
The heart: thrills, lifts, heaves, rubs, with a systolic ejection murmur at both sternal borders.
Alternate Director letter which, although much creased by now through having been folded into my shirt pocket for the cross-country expedition, worked its customary suspension of prompt ejection, and, smooth man that he was, he listened courteously to my plea for the workers at the brewery to receive their wages as usual for this present week, and for the pensioners to be paid also, while the insolvency practitioner, Mrs.
Then the detritus shuddered and she was wedged between a loose computer monitor and a lab table, queuing up for ejection.
Any questioning of the judges, quibbling, hair-splitting, or whining could yield a heavy fine, strippage, ejection, or all three.
These magnetic fields wrestled with the complex magnetohydro-dynamic weavings of the sun itself, strengthening weakened fields to control sunspots, maintaining large-scale magnetostatic equilibrium to prevent coronal mass ejections, hindering the nested magnetic loop re-connections that caused flares.
He had an infected mitral valve from God knows what, crappy coronaries, and an ejection fraction less than twenty percent.
Above him Uhura, impassive as a bronze idol, was calmly readying an ejection pod with tapes and readouts of every ship function, standard procedure in the event of a battle.
Who cared about mitral valves and ejection fractions when she had very sick babies to worry about?
After all, short of opting to punch out, backseaters had absolutely no control over what the Tomcat did with them in the air other than the ultimate veto option--the ejection seat handle.
I have always believed that the thousand calumnies which the federalists, in bitterness of heart, and mortification at their ejection, daily invented against me, were carried to him by their busy intriguers, and made some impression.