emersion

[ ih-mur-zhuhn, -shuhn ]

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noun

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

emersion

/ ɪˈmɜːʃən /

the act or an instance of emerging
Also calledegress astronomy the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse or occultation

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

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C17: from Latin ēmersus, from ēmergere; see emerge

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

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

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

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

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

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