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emersion
[ ih-mur-zhuhn, -shuhn ]
noun
- Also called egress. Astronomy. the emergence of a heavenly body from an eclipse, an occultation, or a transit. Compare immersion ( def 5 ).
emersion
/ ɪˈmɜːʃən /
noun
- the act or an instance of emerging
- Also calledegress astronomy the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse or occultation
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- ree·mersion noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of emersion1
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Example Sentences
After about the middle of the totality, and so after the emersion of the sun, we saw Venus very plainly, but no other star.
Made an observation on an emersion of one of Jupiter's satellities.
We were sitting together last night in the turret of his house, watching the emersion of a satellite of Jupiter.
A more miserable-looking object, on his emersion from the cold bath, I never saw.
At about ten, I observed an emersion of Jupiter's second satellite; time by the achrometer 8.
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