Hypertext Webster Gateway: "emersion"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Emersion \E*mer"sion\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]mersion. See {Emerge}.]
1. The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as,
emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or
difficulties.
Their immersion into water and their emersion out of
the same. --Knatchbull.
2. (Astron.) The reappearance of a heavenly body after an
eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from
the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from
behind the moon.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
emersion
n 1: (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an
eclipse [syn: {egress}]
2: the act of emerging [syn: {emergence}]
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