noun
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the act or an instance of emerging
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Also called: egress. astronomy the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse or occultation
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Etymology
Origin of emersion
1625–35; < Latin ēmers ( us ) (past participle of ēmergere to emerge ) + -ion
Explanation
Emersion is when something that's been out of sight appears or emerges. The emersion of your friend's head from the water is a relief if he's been holding his breath at the bottom of the pool for a really long time. It's especially common to use the noun emersion when you're talking about something or someone rising from the water after being submerged beneath the surface. On a whale watch, people gaze at the ocean hoping to see the emersion of a whale, and in many harbors you can also see the emersion of seals' heads if you watch the water long enough. It's easy to confuse emersion with its opposite, immersion. Emersion shares a Latin root with emerge — emergere, "rise up."
Example Sentences
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Join us for a conversation that traverses the globe while exploring the immigrant experience, environmental degradation, cultural emersion, globalism and the American Dream.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2021
The locals hardly need reminding and, after my intensive lace emersion, I was practically dreaming it.
From BBC • Aug. 1, 2011
"What name, my lady, would be on the luggage?" asked the station-master when, notwithstanding her emersion from a second-class compartment, he had seen Mrs. Caffyn embraced by her ladyship.
From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton
During the night got the telescope ready in order to set the watch to Greenwich time by observing an emersion of the second satellite of Jupiter.
From The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 by Whishaw, John
Hence the necessary emersion of the countries near the Pole.
From The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Riou, Edouard
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