emitter
a person or thing that emits.
Electronics. an electrode on a transistor from which a flow of electrons or holes enters the region between the electrodes.
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In California, where the company currently does most of its work, the oil majors and transportation sector are the biggest emitters, according to Carney.
The fact that the US military is one of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters on the planet is not lost on local activists.
The real love interest in Netflix’s Operation Christmas Drop is the US military | Rachel Ramirez | November 23, 2020 | VoxEarlier this year, for example, a team from Columbia engineered a “feeling” robotic finger using overlapping light emitters and sensors in a way loosely similar to receptor fields.
The most difficult relationship he would probably face is the one with China, the world’s top greenhouse gas emitter, said Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia University’s global Energy Center.
The U.S. will leave the Paris climate accord on Nov. 4. But voters will decide for how long. | Steven Mufson, Brady Dennis | October 30, 2020 | Washington PostLast week, Japan said it would target net zero by 2050, and in September China, the world’s largest emitter, said it would target net zero by 2060.
When it comes to climate change, says Mark Carney, this financial crisis is different—and maybe better | kdunn6 | October 27, 2020 | Fortune
Brazil is the fourth-largest greenhouse-gas emitter in the world, largely due to the deforestation of the Amazon.
After all, as the leading emitter of greenhouse gases in the industrialized world, any agreement is meaningless without it.
One such reaction uses alpha particles emitted by polonium-210 (or some other alpha emitter) to bombard the element beryllium.
The Atomic Fingerprint | Bernard KeischNaturally, your lab and the machine were heavily shielded, but even so, a radio emitter next door would be bound to throw you off.
Sentiment, Inc. | Poul William AndersonAs an emitter he was only fair, but he was the best behoover I ever saw anywhere.
Europe Revised | Irvin S. CobbIt is a powerful emitter of dark rays; it is also a powerful absorber.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 | John Tyndall
British Dictionary definitions for emitter
/ (ɪˈmɪtə) /
a person or thing that emits
a radioactive substance that emits radiation: a beta emitter
the region in a transistor in which the charge-carrying holes or electrons originate
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