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noun

Emersion n.

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."

(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.

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"Emersion" Quotes from Famous Books

... Captain is the first man I ever heard of that took notice of a red streak preceding the emersion of the Sun's body from a total eclipse, and I take notice of it to you [the Royal Society], because it infers that the Moon has an atmosphere; and its short continuance, if only six or seven seconds' time, tells us that its height was not more than five or six ...

— The Story of Eclipses • George Chambers

... 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

... methods are valid. Immersion was the Apostolic method, and explains most vividly the Apostolic teaching (in which the Candidate is "buried with Christ" by immersion, and rises again by emersion)[4] no less than the meaning of the word—from the Greek baptizo, to dip. Provision for Immersion has been made by a Fontgrave, in Lambeth Parish Church, erected in memory of Archbishop Benson, and constantly made use of. But, even ...

— The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments • E. E. Holmes

Words linked to "Emersion" : occultation, emergence, ingress, uranology, immersion, egress, appearance, eclipse, emerge, astronomy