EMISSION, med. jur. The act by which any matter whatever is thrown from the
body; thus it is usual to say, emission of urine, emission of semen, &c.
2. In cases of rape, when the fact of penetration is proved, it may be
left to the jury whether emission did or did not take place. Proof of
emission would perhaps be held to be evidence of penetration. Addis. R. 143;
2 So. Car. Const. R. 351; 2 Chitty, Crim. Law, 810; 1 Beck's Med. Jur. 140 1
Russ. C. & M. 560; 1 East, P. C. 437.
Source: Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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Emission \E*mis"sion\, n. [L. emissio: cf. F. ['e]mission. See
Emit.]
1. The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending
forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission
of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire;
the emission of bank notes.
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2. That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at
one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood.
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Emission theory (Physics), the theory of Newton, regarding
light as consisting of emitted particles or corpuscles.
See Corpuscular theory, under Corpuscular.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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32 Moby Thesaurus words for "emission":
blowout, discharge, disgorgement, effusion, egestion, ejaculation,
ejection, elimination, emanation, emergence, emersion, eructation,
eruption, excretion, expulsion, extravasation, extrusion,
exudation, flow, flux, issuance, issue, jet, outburst, outpour,
secretion, spout, spurt, squirt, surfacing, transudation, vent
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Emission \E*mis"sion\, n. [L. emissio: cf. F. ['e]mission. See
Emit.]
1. The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending
forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission
of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire;
the emission of bank notes.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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