re-emissionn.
/riːᵻˈmɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌriəˈmɪʃən/, /ˈˌriˌiˈmɪʃən/ 1. Chiefly in North America before the War of Independence: a reissue of bills, shares, currency, etc. Cf. emission n. 3. Now rare (chiefly historical in later use).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > emission > again
regurgitation1601
re-emission1740
1740 W. Douglass Disc. Currencies Brit. Plantations in Amer. 10 In the following Years no more new Emissions, but some Re~emissions of the remainder.
1754 6 Feb. in Votes & Proc. of House of Representatives of Province of Pennsylvania (1774) 274 Your Committee humbly submit it to the Consideration of the House, whether it is not now become necessary, not only to prolong the Re-emissions, but to strike and emit an additional Sum.
1765 J. Dickinson Late Regulations Brit. Colonies i In 1738..there was an emission and re-emission amounting in the whole to £80,000.
1834 T. F. Gordon Gazetteer New Jersey 90 To provide for the re-emission of the bills of credit.
1896 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 8 58 From time to time issues were authorized to replace torn and defaced bills, and in 1745, a general re-emission to date from October, 1746, and to be for sixteen years.
1929 Montana Standard 13 Nov. 12/7 The stabilization of the mark, with its re-emission of metal currency, has brought a boom to Germany's automatic slot machine business.
1999 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 89 29 Ten days later, on January 16, 1731, the re-emission of bills under the 1726 act ceased according to direction of the act.
2. Emission again of something which has been absorbed; (Physics) emission of radiation after previous absorption. Also: an instance of this; a thing that is re-emitted. rare before mid 20th cent.
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1801 T. Young in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 92 46 There are some phenomena of the light of solar phosphor, which..might seem to favour the corpuscular system; for instance, its remaining many months as if in a latent state, and its subsequent re-emission by the action of heat.
1910 Proc. Royal Soc. 1909–10 A. 83 338 Accumulation of the energy could not proceed indefinitely, and re-emission must supervene.
1952 G. Gamow Birth & Death of Sun (ed. 2) p. viii The successive capture and re-emission of free electrons by the nuclei of different elements.
1980 J. F. O'Hanlon User's Guide Vacuum Technol. ix. 221 The sputter ion pump..does suffer from the reemission of previously pumped gases.
1993 Sci. Amer. July 49/3 A light-sensitive detector records the reemissions and converts them into a measurable current.
1999 Environ. Sci. & Pollution Res. Internat. 6 89 The occurrence of longer periods of dry ground surfaces enabling reemission of crustal and biological material.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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