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).
Archaic. the act of emerging.

Origin of emersion

1625–35; <Latin ēmers(us) (past participle of ēmergere to emerge) + -ion

Other words from emersion

re·e·mer·sion, noun

Words that may be confused with emersion

emersion , immersion

Words Nearby emersion

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How to use emersion in a sentence

After about the middle of the totality, and so after the emersion of the sun, we saw Venus very plainly, but no other star.
The Book of Curiosities | I. Platts
Made an observation on an emersion of one of Jupiter's satellities.
The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume II (of 3) | Elliott Coues
We were sitting together last night in the turret of his house, watching the emersion of a satellite of Jupiter.
Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century | Samuel Johnson
A more miserable-looking object, on his emersion from the cold bath, I never saw.
The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, | Alexander Michie
At about ten, I observed an emersion of Jupiter's second satellite; time by the achrometer 8.
Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 | Alexander Mackenzie

British Dictionary definitions for emersion

emersion

/ (ɪˈmɜːʃən) /

noun

the act or an instance of emerging
Also called: egress astronomy the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse or occultation

Origin of emersion

C17: from Latin ēmersus, from ēmergere; see emerge

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