emission

Definitions


[ɪˈmɪʃn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the production and discharge of something, especially gas or radiation
(e.g: the effects of lead emission on health)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘emanation’): from Latin emissio(n-), from emiss- ‘sent out’, from the verb emittere (see emit)




definition by Oxford Dictionaries