[ふくえん, fukuen] (n, vs) emersion (after an eclipse); egress [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Emersion \E*mer"sion\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]mersion. See {Emerge}.]
1. The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as,
emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or
difficulties.
[1913 Webster]
Their immersion into water and their emersion out of
the same. --Knatchbull.
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2. (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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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
emersion
n 1: (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an
eclipse [syn: {egress}, {emersion}] [ant: {immersion},
{ingress}]
2: the act of emerging [syn: {emergence}, {emersion}]