Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of emerging; emergence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of emerging; emergence: chiefly used in contrast with immersion, etc.
- noun In astron.: The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; also, the time of reappearance: as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon.
- noun The heliacal rising of a star—that is, its reappearance just before sunrise after conjunction with the sun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything
- noun (Astron.) The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
emergence , especially from the water
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse
- noun the act of emerging
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Juaquin packed all the stuff he agreed to ship home for us like the juicer and the strainer and the emersion blender, and I crammed everything I could into our luggage including the new Tony Lama boots and the books and the medications, and the everything, including Valentine Tiger.
Carol Jones: The Plane Ride Home From Houston Carol Jones 2011
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Cooking lessons, cultural emersion, relaxed atmosphere and fresh food all for $16 a family?
Diya Luke: Experiencing Malaysian Culture Through Food 'Hawkers' Diya Luke 2011
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The effort is a seven-day boot camp and emersion program that will bring ten young Japanese entrepreneurs to the Bay Area.
Porter Gale: One Reason the Bay Area’s Entrepreneurial Climate Is Thriving Porter Gale 2011
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Reading the books like the classic Between Pacific Tides of Ricketts et al. certainly helps, but mostly in an abstract sense; one needs to be at a coast right at the edge of the sea during both high and low tides and to pay attention to the creatures both during immersion and emersion to begin to acquire a slight understanding of how the intertidal ecosystems may have evolved and how they continue to function.
Archive 2009-04-01 AYDIN 2009
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Cooking lessons, cultural emersion, relaxed atmosphere and fresh food all for $16 a family?
Diya Luke: Experiencing Malaysian Culture Through Food 'Hawkers' Diya Luke 2011
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The effort is a seven-day boot camp and emersion program that will bring ten young Japanese entrepreneurs to the Bay Area.
Porter Gale: One Reason the Bay Areaâââ‰â¢s Entrepreneurial Climate Is Thriving Porter Gale 2011
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Juaquin packed all the stuff he agreed to ship home for us like the juicer and the strainer and the emersion blender, and I crammed everything I could into our luggage including the new Tony Lama boots and the books and the medications, and the everything, including Valentine Tiger.
Carol Jones: The Plane Ride Home From Houston Carol Jones 2011
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I know one guy who actually put a steerable camera on his plane and used a VR helmet, the emersion was incredible.
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Each night I went down to the main stage to survey the scene, grab a few drinks, dance like a crazy person for about an hour and call it a night, which worked out perfectly, because full emersion into my surroundings might have eliminated the chances of making it to yoga at all the next day.
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Talk about an opportunity for emersion, it was a given!
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