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Emersion n.

The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties. "Their immersion into water and their emersion out of the same."

(Astron.) The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon.

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Etymology of 'Emersion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Emersion" Quotes from Famous Books

... one body off the disk of another. ELEMENTS, the quantities which determine the motion of a planet: data for predicting astronomical phenomena; table of solar, 274. ELEMENTS, chemical, present in the sun, 270. ELONGATION, the angular distance of a planet from the sun. EMERSION, the reappearance of a body after it has been eclipsed or occulted by another. [Page 281] EQUATOR, terrestrial, the great circle half-way between the poles of the earth. When the plane of this is extended to the ...

— Recreations in Astronomy - With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work • Henry Warren

... in this place, so far remote from all those regions which the mind has been used to contemplate as the mansions of pleasure, struck the imagination with a delightful surprise, analogous to that which is felt at an unexpected emersion from darkness into light. ...

— A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland • Samuel Johnson

... is attached to the horizontal beam that supports the zincs and counterpoises. If the axle, M, be given a continuous revolution, it will communicate to the rod, A, an upward and downward motion that will be transmitted to the beam and produce an alternate immersion and emersion of the zincs. ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 • Various

... some facts that, to say the least, are astonishing. Thus in 1693, during an epidemic, people perished in the greatest numbers on the 21st of January, during an eclipse. The celebrated Bacon fainted during the moon eclipses, and only came to himself after its entire emersion. King Charles VI. relapsed six times into madness during the year 1399, either at the new or full moon. Physicians have ranked epilepsy amongst the maladies that follow the phases of the moon. Nervous maladies have often appeared to be influenced by it. Mead speaks of a child who had convulsions ...

— The Moon-Voyage • Jules Verne

Words linked to "Emersion" : ingress, astronomy, occultation, emergence, egress, reappearance, appearance, eclipse, emerge, uranology, immersion