Synonyms for Emission
ɪˈmɪʃ ənemis·sion

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1. emission, emanationnoun

   the act of emitting; causing to flow forth

   Synonyms:
   expelling, rise, emission, procession, discharge, emanation

2. discharge, emissionnoun

   a substance that is emitted or released

   Synonyms:
   dismissal, arc, emanation, firing, waiver, firing off, dismission, sack, discharge, venting, liberation, release, sacking, spark, run, emission, electric arc, expelling, outpouring, electric discharge

3. emissionnoun

   the release of electrons from parent atoms

   Synonyms:
   expelling, discharge, emanation

4. discharge, emission, expellingnoun

   any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body

   "the discharge of pus"

   Synonyms:
   dismissal, arc, emanation, firing, waiver, firing off, dismission, sack, discharge, venting, liberation, release, sacking, spark, run, emission, electric arc, expelling, outpouring, electric discharge

5. emissionnoun

   the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)

   Synonyms:
   expelling, discharge, emanation

Matched Categories

1. • Bodily Process
   • Emergence
   • Flow
   • Material
   • Release

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. emissionnoun

   Synonyms:
   issue, sending out, throwing out

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.0 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "emission":

   emissions, issuance, emission-related, playout, issuing, programming, broadcasts, broadcast, discharge, emitting

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1. Joeri Rogelj:

   People have made a huge sacrifice, they have sacrificed their social lives, their family interactions their mobility and so on. And emissions have declined quite markedly because of that. But we also see that these emission reductions are very temporary, and why is that ? It's because these emissions reductions were the result of changing or reducing our activities, but not the cause of any structural change of how our society actually works.

2. Jos Delbeke:

   Everybody has a target. But translating it into policies that lead to real emission reductions, that’s the most difficult part.

3. James Longhurst:

   If the deliberate bypassing of emission control systems is more widespread than just VW diesel sales in the U.S., then it may help explain what has been observed in measurements of air pollution in cities, at this point we don't know the exact size of the problem, but it will, without doubt, have added to the health burden. Public health has been deliberately put at risk.

4. Dheeraj Pasham:

   The fact that we can track this region of bright X-ray emission as it circles the black hole lets us track just how quickly material in the disk is spinning, that gives us information about the spin rate of the supermassive black hole itself.

5. Wood Mackenzie:

   Large smelting capacity for copper, zinc and lead is located in the target area and will need to either upgrade to meet new emission norms or face production curbs, cost pressure will likely increase. Our analysis on copper smelters shows up to 2.6 million tonnes a year capacity could be affected.