Crossword clues for emission
emission
- Car exhaust
- European operation creates discharge
- At first, molecule ionises catastrophically, resulting in leak
- Something given out
- Turned up noise to conceal Military Intelligence - special release
- Carbon monoxide from an engine, e.g
- Substance discharged
- Smoke, from a car
- Smog test's concern
- Issuance, as of money
- Carbon dioxide, for one
- Discharge into the air
- Release
- E.P.A. measurement
- E.P.A. concern
- A substance that is emitted or released
- The occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)
- The release of electrons from parent atoms
- The act of emitting
- Any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- A putting into circulation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
emission
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
emission credit
emissions trading
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ Transportation sources contributed only 31 percent of annual emissions in 1989 compared with 88 percent in 1978.
▪ For the domestic sector alone, this could reduce present annual CO2 emissions by almost 50 percent by the year 2020.
global
▪ Livestock is estimated to account for some 15 percent of global emissions of methane - one of the leading greenhouse gases.
▪ The estimated global emissions of carbon from fossil fuels alone have tripled since 1950.
▪ And even if that target is met, global emissions will still rise to 30 per cent above 1990 levels by 2010.
▪ Although anthropogenic emissions of sulphur dioxide account for only half of the total global emission, they tend to be very concentrated.
▪ Governments, airlines and passengers should take action to curb global emissions, the report concluded.
harmful
▪ We will meet our international obligations to reduce harmful chimney emissions.
▪ Motor vehicles account for 72 percent of all harmful emissions.
▪ The licenses have been issued on condition that PowerGen installs equipment to remove most of the harmful emissions by 1998.
industrial
▪ The Board claims that environmentalists have underestimated the degree of protection afforded by clouds and industrial emissions.
▪ It was also one of the most polluted, both because of insufficiently controlled industrial emissions and its high density of population.
low
▪ Minerals giving very low intensity emission, such as quartz grains, required many minutes or even hours of exposure with fast films.
▪ In Johansson's model, this option produced lower emissions, but they were not low enough.
▪ As technology improves, thereby making it possible to set a lower emission standard, new sources face increasingly more strict controls.
national
▪ This situation reflects the spectacular 94 percent reduction in total national lead emissions during the 1978-89 period.
▪ Levels have fallen from 60.2 percent of total national carbon emissions to 49.5 percent in 1989.
▪ Home energy efficiency is increasingly seen as a route to a reduction in national greenhouse gas emissions.
▪ This trend reflects a 23 percent decrease in national carbon monoxide emissions.
reducing
▪ In April President Clinton pledged his administration to a target of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000.
▪ The government is committed to reducing sulphur dioxide emissions by 60 percent to their 1980 levels by 2005.
▪ The bubble policy was the first implicit market-based approach to be used in reducing emissions in the United States.
▪ Other cost-effective ways of reducing emissions included combined heat and power for housing, factories and hospitals, and lighting efficiency.
▪ The government has committed itself to reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000.
▪ Compliance with other countries in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases is also urged.
▪ Chester was still trying to persuade the Committee that there was no urgency about reducing sulphur emissions.
total
▪ This situation reflects the spectacular 94 percent reduction in total national lead emissions during the 1978-89 period.
▪ Although anthropogenic emissions of sulphur dioxide account for only half of the total global emission, they tend to be very concentrated.
▪ The total emissions for the United Kingdom as given by the Department of the Environment are shown below.
▪ Levels have fallen from 60.2 percent of total national carbon emissions to 49.5 percent in 1989.
▪ Traffic now accounts for 51 percent of total nitrogen oxide emissions, compared to 31 percent in 1980.
▪ Instead, Mrs Thatcher pledged to reduce total SO2 emissions by 30 percent by the year 2000.
▪ In the simplest experiment the total emission is monitored as a function of excitation frequency, giving an excitation spectrum.
▪ The country's 22.5 million cars emit 20 percent of total carbon dioxide emissions.
toxic
▪ Laws about toxic emissions, like membership of regulatory bodies, have been dictated by industry lobbyists.
■ NOUN
carbon
▪ Some attacked the fact that faster growth has been environmentally unsound, creating excessive carbon emissions and destroying natural habitats.
▪ Their purpose is to encourage countries to ratify the Kyoto protocol on reducing carbon emissions.
▪ He has also proposed yearly progress reports updating targets on everything from recycling to carbon emissions.
▪ Can energy efficiency and a greater dependence on natural gas cut carbon emissions sufficiently on their own?
▪ Levels have fallen from 60.2 percent of total national carbon emissions to 49.5 percent in 1989.
▪ The report was commissioned from scientists in five countries in order to assess the impact of dramatic reductions in carbon emissions.
▪ The government predicts that on current trends carbon emissions will rise from 160 million tons to 170 million tons in the 1990s.
control
▪ With this it is possible to control the emission control equipment and ensure peak efficiency thanks to cylinder-by-cylinder knock sensing.
▪ They argue that this effluent fee would give motorists the proper incentive to ensure that exhaust emission control devices were efficiently maintained.
dioxide
▪ The new plan focused on reducing carbon dioxide emissions by cutting energy consumption.
▪ Controlling carbon dioxide emissions ultimately entails reducing the consumption of energy-intensive goods.
▪ Trees that could have been used to eat your car's microscopic carbon dioxide emissions.
▪ All three books also cover the effects of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.
▪ The net result is that, however one mixes the energy cake, carbon dioxide emissions go on increasing.
▪ The overwhelming weight of scientific opinion is that we need to make cuts of 60 % or more in carbon dioxide emissions.
▪ Even then, carbon dioxide emissions could still increase 65 percent by 2030.
▪ Carbon dioxide emissions will increase by between 9 and 23 percent, and fuel consumption will rise by 3-9 percent.
exhaust
▪ They called for high power and torque, low smoke and exhaust emission levels, quiet, and good fuel economy.
▪ They are expected to halve pollution caused by large commercial vehicles, bringing them into line with regulations governing car exhaust emissions.
▪ It's also much quieter and even better behaved, by that we mean it burns cleaner with less exhaust emissions.
▪ It could only be concluded that the cause of the intense eye irritation was in some way related to vehicle exhaust emissions.
▪ This 1960 Act required the Surgeon General to undertake studies of the health effects of motor vehicle exhaust emissions.
▪ The exhaust emissions standards could only be met with current technology by installing three-way catalytic converters in petrol-driven vehicles.
▪ Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins, in particular lead.
▪ From Los Angeles to Athens, city authorities have tried to enact measures to limit exhaust emissions.
gas
▪ We need to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60 %.
▪ The market could grow much bigger if countries further subsidize wind power to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
▪ What has emerged so far confirms the pessimism that has settled over the international effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
▪ Talk of mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions may seem sudden.
▪ Home energy efficiency is increasingly seen as a route to a reduction in national greenhouse gas emissions.
▪ The Committee also outlined tough recommendations on how greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced.
lead
▪ This situation reflects the spectacular 94 percent reduction in total national lead emissions during the 1978-89 period.
▪ However, lead emissions from car exhausts are an atmospheric pollutant that may be harmful to people's health.
level
▪ They called for high power and torque, low smoke and exhaust emission levels, quiet, and good fuel economy.
▪ In most cases, emission levels were orders of magnitude below standard recommended levels.
▪ In addition, diesels generally require less maintenance than petrol engines and can retain impressive emission levels over large mileages.
odour
▪ This crust prevents odours escaping and hence reduces odour emission.
▪ The survey also provided information as to the types of development most likely to be refused planning permission due to anticipated odour emission.
oxide
▪ To avoid further damage to sensitive ecosystems, sulphur and nitrogen oxide emissions must be cut by 90 percent.
▪ Nitrogen oxide emissions from vehicles are rising every year because of the huge growth in the number of cars.
▪ Both countries would also limit nitrogen oxide emissions through stricter controls on motor vehicles.
▪ Nitrogen oxide Forty percent of nitrogen oxide emissions in Britain come from vehicles.
▪ It would also reduce sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions, which cause acid rain, by 42,000 tonnes.
▪ The Government gave way in 1988, then went back on deal to cut nitrous oxide emissions by 30 percent.
▪ A model system relates energy consumption to emissions of sulphur and nitrogen oxide emissions.
▪ Traffic now accounts for 51 percent of total nitrogen oxide emissions, compared to 31 percent in 1980.
reduction
▪ This voluntary approach to emissions reduction would likely be more effective than the voluntarism urged here.
▪ The wide-ranging measure also will: Ease some Environmental Protection Agency requirements for state emissions reduction programs.
▪ Talks resume next week in Bonn on legally binding emission reduction targets that Washington has rejected.
▪ Few authorities consider that short-term emission reduction options can prevent the first stage of a smog occurring.
▪ Offsets create an unofficial market in pollution or emission reduction credits.
source
▪ A second example of the need to target the correct emission sources relates to traffic.
▪ To apply this strategy to numerous small-scale emission sources such as heating in homes and motor vehicles would be more complex.
▪ Houses are one of the main carbon dioxide emission sources and tree planting is a step towards rectifying that damage.
standard
▪ Stiffer emission standards are being introduced to reduce permissible levels.
▪ At one extreme lies the Soviet Union which has over 100 national air quality standards and few emission standards.
▪ It would be useful to have specific state and federal emissions standards for facilities like this, standards to compare against.
▪ The exhaust emissions standards could only be met with current technology by installing three-way catalytic converters in petrol-driven vehicles.
▪ It is shown to be possible to maintain or improve upon Current emission standards.
▪ Such action represents the adoption of aspects of a second air pollution control strategy - namely, the emission standards strategy.
▪ These emission standards vary widely, somewhat like those for the different locations in Florida described in Chapter 9.
sulphur
▪ FoE says that the stations are sited in areas where World Health Organization guidelines on sulphur emissions were breached last year.
▪ The report recommends a threefold cut in sulphur emissions.
▪ Pressure is however increasing for measures to cut sulphur emission.
▪ The subsidies are planned to cut sulphur emissions from lorries by a quarter.
▪ Chester was still trying to persuade the Committee that there was no urgency about reducing sulphur emissions.
vehicle
▪ California outlaws exhaust emissions California is to introduce vehicle emission standards even tougher than the stringent levels already proposed for 1997.
▪ The Environmental Defense Fund brokered a series of pilot projects in Juarez, including one to test vehicle emissions.
▪ All the measures that I catalogued earlier will help to reduce vehicle emissions - the principal cause of bad air.
▪ A green transport policy Using unleaded petrol and fitting catalytic converters will dramatically reduce the levels of pollution caused by vehicle emissions.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ Public transport of the future may use fuel cells to achieve zero emissions.
cause
▪ It is usually caused by the emission of particulates or nitrogen dioxide.
▪ Washington continues to challenge the scientific claim that global warming is in part caused by emissions of carbon dioxide.
▪ The huge rise in vehicle use forecast by the Government will therefore cause CO2 emissions from vehicles to increase enormously.
▪ A green transport policy Using unleaded petrol and fitting catalytic converters will dramatically reduce the levels of pollution caused by vehicle emissions.
clean
▪ The company also looks set to prosper from making the substrates which go into catalytic converters used to clean car-exhaust emissions.
curb
▪ Governments, airlines and passengers should take action to curb global emissions, the report concluded.
▪ The market could grow much bigger if countries further subsidize wind power to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
cut
▪ Over the next 13 years, the regulations set out to achieve a 70 percent cut in hydrocarbon emissions.
▪ Doubling rail traffic would cut carbon dioxide emissions by only about 3 percent.
▪ What has emerged so far confirms the pessimism that has settled over the international effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
▪ Three years ago, in Kyoto, the leaders of those 180 countries solemnly promised to cut these emissions.
▪ Polanyi would propose a world environment organisation with the right to impose sanctions on countries that refuse to cut emissions.
▪ The Government gave way in 1988, then went back on deal to cut nitrous oxide emissions by 30 percent.
▪ The low-emission consortium deals with technology that will cut petrol engine emissions to meet the tightening regulations.
▪ They are demanding that richer countries cut back their carbon emissions to compensate.
cutting
▪ But the poorer nations would also have to accept binding targets for cutting emissions.
▪ Inventing an economically efficient system for counting and cutting emissions that encompasses the public and private sectors, is the biggest challenge.
increase
▪ Defendus would increase emissions by a mere 11 percent.
▪ But Clinton insists that new technologies will improve energy efficiency, enabling developing countries to continue economic growth without increasing emissions.
▪ At that point, however, the still increasing emissions of carbon dioxide will begin the upward spiral once more.
limit
▪ Both countries would also limit nitrogen oxide emissions through stricter controls on motor vehicles.
▪ The plant will set new standards in the working conditions for staff and will strictly limit emissions, noise and smells.
▪ From Los Angeles to Athens, city authorities have tried to enact measures to limit exhaust emissions.
▪ Government officials have acknowledged that existing policies to limit acidic emissions - notably of sulphur dioxide - are inadequate.
meet
▪ And even if that target is met, global emissions will still rise to 30 per cent above 1990 levels by 2010.
reduce
▪ In fact, savings of electricity are particularly important in terms of reducing CO2 emissions.
▪ The technology for reducing diesel emissions is expensive.
▪ The new plan focused on reducing carbon dioxide emissions by cutting energy consumption.
▪ The maps will be used to show that current plans to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations will meet international commitments.
▪ These will all reduce emissions from fossil fuels and so help combat global warming and acid deposition.
▪ Smith advised the manufacturers on how to reduce emissions to better than the 5 percent permitted under the new Act.
▪ Techniques for reducing these emissions are available and are being applied in a number of countries.
▪ The paint industry, breweries, aerosol manufacturers, and even bakeries would have to install equipment to reduce noxious emissions.
set
▪ This sets strict limits on emissions in an effort to reduce the country's contribution to global warming and acid rain.
▪ The year saw continued progress in setting tighter standards on emissions and in-use testing around the world.
▪ So they risk losing most potential economic growth if a climate treaty sets ceilings on emissions.
▪ As technology improves, thereby making it possible to set a lower emission standard, new sources face increasingly more strict controls.
▪ Apart from general operating conditions, it has set emission limits for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide are still increasing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Economic incentives or disincentives such as pollutant emission charges or taxes should receive more attention than they had received previously.
▪ It estimates that in that time it cut its carbon dioxide emissions by more than 20 percent.
▪ Most businesses today simply burn the emissions in a closed incinerator, wasting energy from the fire.
▪ Note that the high sulfur oil example leads to greater emissions than two of the coal groups.
▪ Sulphur dioxide emissions would also increase if that strategy were implemented.
▪ This forms part of the company's long standing commitment to reducing atmospheric emissions from its Teesside operations.
▪ Those are a necessary complement to last year's directive on emission standards for heavy duty diesel vehicles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emission
Emission \E*mis"sion\, n. [L. emissio: cf. F. ['e]mission. See Emit.]
The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes.
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That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood.
Emission theory (Physics), the theory of Newton, regarding light as consisting of emitted particles or corpuscles. See Corpuscular theory, under Corpuscular.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
emission
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" (see emit). Meaning "a giving off or emitting" is from 1610s.
Wiktionary
emission
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.
WordNet
emission
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 pus" [syn: discharge, expelling]
the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)
Wikipedia
Emission
Emission may refer to:
Emission of chemical products:
- Emission of air pollutants, notably:
- Flue gas, gas exiting to the atmosphere via a flue
- Exhaust gas, flue gas generated by fuel combustion
- Emission of greenhouse gases, which absorb and emit radiation in the thermal infrared range
- Emission intensity, a measure of the emission rate of a given pollutant from a given source
- Emission standards, requirements that set specific limits on the amount of certain pollutants that can be released into the environment
- Emissions trading, a market-based approach used to pollution control
Emission of electromagnetic radiation:
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Emission (electromagnetic radiation), a process by which energy is released in the form of photons
- List of light sources
- Emission (radiocommunications), a radio signal (usually modulated) emitted from a radio transmitter
- Emission coefficient, a coefficient in the power output per unit time of an electromagnetic source
- Emission line, or "spectral line", a dark or bright line in an otherwise uniform and continuous spectrum
- Emission nebula, a cloud of ionized gas emitting light of various colors
- Emission spectroscopy, photoemission spectroscopy, flame emission spectroscopy and other types of spectroscopy
- Emission theory, a competing theory for the special theory of relativity, explaining the results of the Michelson-Morley experiment
- Emission theory (vision), the proposal that visual perception is accomplished by rays of light emitted by the eyes
Other uses:
- Thermionic emission, the flow of charged particles called thermions from a charged metal or a charged metal oxide surface, archaically known as the Edison effect
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Ejaculation, the ejecting of semen from the penis; also, specifically:
- Nocturnal emission, ejaculation experienced during sleep
- Noise emission
- Exhalation of air, especially in the context of musical instruments
Emission (radiocommunications)
Emission is the radiation or radio signal produced or emitted by a radio transmitting station.
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.