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emersion|ɪˈmɜːʃən|
[as if ad. L. *ēmersiōn-em, n. of action f. ēmergĕ-re to emerge.]
1. The appearing (of what has been submerged) above the surface of the water. (Formerly sometimes in a narrower sense: see quot. 1731.)
1667Phil. Trans. II. 440 The Immersion and Emersion of the Globe. 1693Knatchbull Annot. 207 (T.) Their immersion into the water, and their emersion out of the same. 1731Bailey, vol. II. Emersion, the rising of any solid above the surface of a fluid specifically lighter than itself, into which it had been violently immersed. 1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 26 The creation of fish was..subsequent to the emersion of the tracts just mentioned. 1875Wonders Phys. World America, the emersion of which is comparatively recent.
fig.1760Foote Minor ii. (1781) 58 Her emersion from the mercantile ruin. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 350 This emersion..of human nature from the floods of corruption.
2. The action of coming out or issuing (from concealment or confinement). Somewhat rare.
1763C. Johnstone Reverie II. 42 My emersion from..solitude in which I had buried myself. 1835Kirby Hab. Anim. I. ii. 63 The animal's emersion from its hiding place.
b. Astron. The reappearance of the sun or moon from shadow after eclipse, or of a star or planet after occultation.
1633H. Gellibrand in T. James Voy. R b, The exact time of the Moones Emersion. 1759Johnson Rasselas xl. (1787) 116 We were..watching the emersion of a satellite of Jupiter. 1833Sir J. Herschel Astron. ix. 294 An eclipse..in which only the immersion, or only the emersion is seen.
†3. A coming into notice; an issuing into being. Obs.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 145 This Hylozoick Atheism hath been very obscure ever since its first Emersion. 1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. 218 The emersion of the New Jerusalem into Being. |