"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
... water and was a settin' up on the old snag a sunnin' uv himself-ah; and lo! and behold-ah! when I rid up a leetle nearer to him-ah, he jumped off of the snag, 'ker chugg' into the water, thereby proving emersion-ah!" ...
— Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales • Robert L. Taylor
... 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
... out of.] Egress — N. egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption^; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation [Med.], perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush &c (water in motion) 348; outpour, outpouring; effluence, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
