EMERSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emersion mean? 

• EMERSION (noun)
  The noun EMERSION has 2 senses:

1. (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse

2. the act of emerging

  Familiarity information: EMERSION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMERSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

egress; emersion

Hypernyms ("emersion" is a kind of...):

reappearance (the event of something appearing again)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

Holonyms ("emersion" is a part of...):

eclipse; occultation (one celestial body obscures another)

Antonym:

immersion ((astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of emerging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

emergence; emersion

Hypernyms ("emersion" is a kind of...):

appearance (the act of appearing in public view)

Derivation:

emerge (come out into view, as from concealment)

emerge (become known or apparent)

emerge (come out of)

emerge (come up to the surface of or rise)

emerge (happen or occur as a result of something)