# emission
## English
### Etymology 1

First attested in 1607. From Middle French émission, from Latin ēmissiō (“sending forth”), from ēmittō (“send out”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mittō (“send”).

#### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ɪˈmɪʃən/, /ɪˈmɪʃn̩/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪʃən

#### Noun

emission (countable and uncountable, plural emissions)
* Something which is emitted or sent out; issue.
    the emission was mostly blood
** 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 274:Cymarron's sound resembled the mellow folkie emissions of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and America.
* The act of emitting; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation.
    the emission of light from the sun
    the emission of heat from a fire
** 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99:Camden motive power depot has been much criticised for its emission of smoke in a residential neighbourhood and its complete dieselisation is rapidly taking place.

##### Synonyms

* (act of sending out): issuance

##### Hyponyms

* nocturnal emission

##### Derived terms

* acoustic emission
* alpha emission
* atomic emission spectroscopy
* emission allowance
* emissionless
* emission line
* emission nebula
* Emissionsgate
* emission spectrum
* emissions test
* emission theory
* emit
* field emission
* field emission display
* field emission microscope
* field emission microscopy
* fugitive emission
* Lambert's emission law
* low-emission
* neutron emission
* night emission
* nonemission
* photoemission
* positron emission tomography
* reemission
* secondary emission
* stimulated emission depletion microscope
* stimulated emission depletion microscopy
* [[superemission low-emission#English|superemission low-emission]]
* zero-emission
* zero-emission vehicle

##### Translations
#### References

* “emission”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French émission.

#### Noun

emission (plural emissions)
* (non-native speakers' English, broadcasting) A show; a program.
** 2002 June 13, Laura Dove, “Documentary about vampires”, in alt.vampyres‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-18:All too often, such shows result in destroying any idea that the topic just _could possibly_ be serious. I also discussed with gothic friends, telling they once were interviewed by people claiming to be creating an emission about gothics... just to discover later that the real topic was sects!
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:emission.

### Anagrams

* Misiones, simonies, simonise

## Danish
### Noun

emission c (singular definite emissionen, plural indefinite emissioner)
* emission

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “emission” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Finnish
### Noun

emission
* genitive singular of emissio

## Friulian
### Noun

emission f (plural emissions)
* emission

## Interlingua
### Noun

emission (plural emissiones)
* emission

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin ēmissiō.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

emission f (plural emissions)
* emission

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /emiˈsjuŋ/

### Noun

emission f
* emission