Definitions for emersions

emersions e·mer·sion

Spelling: [ih-mur-zhuh n, -shuh n]
IPA: /ɪˈmɜr ʒən, -ʃən/

Emersions is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 399 anagrams from letters in emersions (eeimnorss).

Definitions for emersions

noun

  1. Also called egress. Astronomy. the emergence of a heavenly body from an eclipse, an occultation, or a transit. Compare immersion (def 5).
  2. Archaic. the act of emerging.

Origin of emersions

1625-35; Latin ēmers(us) (past participle of ēmergere to emerge) + -ion

Examples for emersions

We were sitting together last night in the turret of his house, watching the emersion of a satellite of Jupiter.

I obtained, with other observations, an immersion and emersion of the third satellite.

Made an observation on an emersion of one of Jupiter's satellities.

At about ten, I observed an emersion of Jupiter's second satellite; time by the achrometer 8.

A more miserable-looking object, on his emersion from the cold bath, I never saw.

I obtained an emersion of the first satellite under favorable circumstances, the night being still and clear.

After about the middle of the totality, and so after the emersion of the sun, we saw Venus very plainly, but no other star.

At three in the morning I obtained an observation of an emersion of the first satellite of Jupiter, with other observations.

Word Value for emersions
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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