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emission

noun as in issuance, diffusion

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The United States and China announced new greenhouse emission targets late Tuesday night.

The joint-announcement should also put to bed long-term disagreements between Beijing and Washington over emission targets.

However, researchers measured a decrease in X-ray emission last year: something new was blocking the light from reaching us.

“Climate change” itself is now a dirty emission rarely uttered from the mouths of Republican leaders.

Not words, of course, but an ongoing emission of verbal fragments.

On the other hand, if too thin the emission is comparatively easy, but lacks intensity and is termed "hollow."

The violin was of good reputation for its tone of fine quality, quantity and ease of emission.

The emission of odors and acute sensibility to them is the only presumable agency at work in those instances.

Thereupon his anxiety became extreme, and simultaneously he experienced his first seminal emission.

On one occasion, however, he had a seminal emission during the night in association with a feeling of anxiety.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to emission, such as: discharge, radiation, ejaculation, ejection, emanation, and exhalation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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