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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The emission of electrons from the surface of a conductor, caused by a strong electric field.
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- noun physics the emission of
electrons from ametal orsemiconductor , under theinfluence of a strongelectric field , by quantum tunneling
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- noun the emission of electrons that are stripped from parent atoms by a high electric field
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