Noun emission has 5 senses
  1. emission, emanation - the act of emitting; causing to flow forth
    --1 is a kind of egress, egression, emergence
    --1 has particulars: radiation; discharge, venting
    Derived forms: verb emit2, verb emit1
  2. discharge, emission - a substance that is emitted or released
    --2 is a kind of material, stuff
    --2 has particulars:
     exudate, exudation; transudate, transudation; effluvium; rheum; vaginal discharge
  3. emission - the release of electrons from parent atoms
    --3 is a kind of
    release
    --3 has particulars:
     photoemission; field emission; photoelectric emission; radiation, radioactivity; secondary emission; thermionic emission, thermal emission
  4. discharge, emission, expelling - any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body; "the discharge of pus"
    --4 is a kind of bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
    --4 has particulars:
     ejaculation; elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding; menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow
  5. emission - the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)
    --5 is a kind of
    flow, flowing
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