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verb (used with object), e·mit·ted, e·mit·ting.

to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.

to give forth or release (a sound): He emitted one shrill cry and then was silent.

to utter or voice, as opinions.

to issue, as an order or a decree.

to issue formally for circulation, as paper money.

Origin:
1620–30; < Latin ēmittere to send forth, equivalent to ē- e- + mittere to send

Related forms

re·e·mit, verb (used with object), -mit·ted, -mit·ting.

self-e·mit·ted, adjective

un·e·mit·ted, adjective

un·e·mit·ting, adjective

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Ramirez's blood had contained white crystals and that she had emitted fumes that smelled like.

The technology for capturing and storing carbon emitted by hard-coal and lignite plants is still not commercially proven.

The models simulate different kinds of light emitted by stars that are hotter and cooler than the sun.

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Ramirez's blood had contained white crystals and that she had emitted fumes that smelled like.

The technology for capturing and storing carbon emitted by hard-coal and lignite plants is still not commercially proven.

The models simulate different kinds of light emitted by stars that are hotter and cooler than the sun.

When an antenna picks up electromagnetic radiation emitted elsewhere, an electrical current is induced in.

Over millions of years, carbon is brought up from the interior and emitted into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide by volcanoes.

The radiation emitted by the antenna is not directional, which means that it propagates in all directions more or less equally.

Mouse pheromones are chemicals emitted in the urine.

It is designed to detect the low-frequency radio pulses emitted by lightning strikes.

Your carbon footprint measures the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted as a result of your daily activities.

Astronomers routinely use the rainbow of colors emitted by the sun and other stars to determine their composition.

The amount of mercury emitted into the atmosphere has tripled, by some estimates, during the past century of industrial activity.

They also found some points in the distant skies that emitted both visible light and radio frequencies.

These systems capture heat emitted by power generators and recycle it into heating and hot water systems.

If policymakers set a carbon tax too low, too much carbon will be emitted.

The group is continuing to study the sounds, including when they are emitted.

N2O is emitted by the fertilizer used to grow corn for ethanol.

The terrific noise it emitted was an explosion which made it erupt several fragments of volcanic materials.

Rates of false alarms versus true alarms emitted by male topi, accounting for the context in which they were made.

The vapor emitted as the wart tissue is destroyed is likely to contain material from the papilloma viruses that cause warts.

David's book opens by evoking the gruesome whistling sound emitted by sheep's lungs frying in oil.

The telescope made the image by detecting x-rays emitted by the black holes as they draw in material around them.

These rays are emitted during the decay of certain versions of uranium, iodine, cesium and other elements.

The brilliant clouds likely formed from the hundreds of tons of water vapor emitted from the shuttle's engine during takeoff.

Sixty percent of the carbon dioxide emitted by man has been absorbed out of the atmosphere.

Its action is similar to the way a beam of light is emitted from the top of a.

If the world were uniform with respect to the price of carbon, it would not matter where the carbon was emitted.

Normally radiation emitted by the star would churn the elements in the star's atmosphere.

The detector picks up the echolocation calls emitted by bats and translates it to a frequency the human ear can hear.

The result was a vehicle that didn't need a single drop of gasoline and that emitted nothing but steam.

Many pollutants are emitted by coal-fired power plants, factories and cars.

The long-term hope is to transmit data using visible light emitted by indoor lighting.

Light emitted by oxygen is shown as blue, hydrogen emission is shown as green, and nitrogen emission as red.

The water emitted from hydrogen burning will have uses in leaching heavy metals from other contaminated site clean ups.

The infrared light emitted by the planet is particularly strong at a wavelength of about four microns.

Aresa scientists had genetically modified the weed so that it reacts to nitrogen dioxide, a gas commonly emitted by explosives.

Light is emitted from the polymer when an electric field is applied across the electrodes.

The nebula's unique shape comes from gas and dust emitted in cone-shaped bursts from the dying star at its center.

Another sign that liquid water is present is the chemistry of the materials being emitted by the plumes.

Measuring a galaxy's redshift tells how long ago its light was emitted.

Traveling by plane, for example, causes carbon dioxide to be emitted into the.

The microwaves are emitted in a tight beam that can be swept across a crowd or directed at specific individuals.

Ionized hydrogen is emitted as the colliding gases of these galaxies explode into new stars.

Just the opposite is true: the longer the decay lifetime, the less the radiation emitted per gram of radio-isotope.

Instead, they measured the light emitted from carbon monoxide molecules.

The amount of carbon dioxide emitted by plants and factories participating in the system has not fallen.

Thermal infrared radiation is a type of light emitted by warm objects.

The new standards aim at slashing smog-forming and cancer-causing pollutants emitted during the oil and gas drilling process.

The stroboscope emitted short, repeating bursts of light.

When the electrons fall back to lower energy states, a photon of light is emitted.

The exact frequency of the waves emitted by a given nucleus depends on its interactions with its neighbours.

Aurora emitted a light light and was in the night sky.

CO2 is the ubiquitous greenhouse gas emitted by human activity, particularly fossil-fuel and forest burning.

Thidé and colleagues generated simulation data describing light emitted from near the black hole at the center of the galaxy.

They contain a receiver that detects the faint signal emitted when cellphones send or.

There are copious amounts of radioactivity emitted by coal power burning power plants and inhaled and ingested by us every day.

Fluorinated gases, such as hydrofluorocarbons, are emitted by industry.

The amount of energy emitted is characteristic of the element, and the amount of energy determines the color of the light emitted.

If monkey embryos emitted a green glow under certain lighting, the researchers would know the jellyfish gene had taken hold.

Low sounds are usually emitted by objects large enough to generate the long wavelengths of those notes.

What is more, only benign gaz are emitted in the atmosphere, and can billow away without damaging the ozone layer.

Every step you take to reduce the amount of nitrogen oxides emitted into the air from vehicles will help reduce acid rain.

He also promised an unspecified cut in carbon intensity-a measure of greenhouse gases emitted per widget produced.

Goodbar he kept in his pocket had melted from the heat emitted from his active radar set.

The process produces a fraction of the carbon dioxide and other pollutants emitted by power plants.

Stellar x-rays are emitted by superheated gas in the stars' atmospheres, or coronas.

Same box, same photon emitted from the flourescing surface.

The interference is emitted in a conical shape outward from the device.

Carbon dioxide emitted by the burning of fossil fuels can warm the earth's atmosphere.

The speaker emitted both an acoustic and seismic signal.

Ozone-depleting chemicals are produced in the stratosphere from halogen source gases emitted at the earth¿s surface.

When confronted with the forest of chains, the bats tended to reduce or increase the sounds they emitted by a few kilohertz.

They did this by increasing the volume of the clicks, which are emitted in pairs, and by adjusting the width of their sonar beam.

The sound emitted from these pretty kids isn't revolutionary, but you buy these for style.

The laser beam emitted from the needle spreads at an angle of five degrees and causes the plaque to dissolve.

The ratio of the amount of light emitted to the amount of ionization indicates whether a particle of dark matter has been found.

Victims sometimes emitted a deathly stench, which is not true of plague victims today.

Gas in the image above has been emitted by the small, blue-tinted star in its center.

Shell-thickening is believed to be initiated when the snails sense some chemical cues in the water emitted by the crabs.

The new image reveals folds, loops and filaments sculpted by intense particle winds and radiation emitted by the hot young stars.

Formaldehyde, a suspected cause of some forms of cancer, is emitted naturally by plastics and building materials.

The material contains nickel-zinc ferrite that blocks the electromagnetic waves emitted by cell phones.

At first, the robots moved and emitted light randomly.

The carbon dioxide emitted when humans burn coal to create usable energy is primarily responsible for global warming.

The laser emitted light in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum, with longer wavelengths than the human eye can see.

Mach cones are best known as the cone-shaped envelope of waves emitted when an object breaks the sound barrier.

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Word Origin & History

emit

1623, from L. emittere "send forth," from ex- "out" + mittere "to send."

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