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Webster 1913 Edition
Emersion
1.
The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything;
as,
emersion
from the sea; emersion
from obscurity or difficulties.Their immersion into water and their
emersion
out of the same. Knatchbull.
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.Webster 1828 Edition
Emersion
EMER'SION
,Noun.
1.
The act of rising out of a fluid or other covering or surrounding substance; opposed to immersion.2.
In astronomy, the reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse, as the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; also, the time of reappearance.3.. The reappearance of a star, which has been hid by the effulgence of the sun's light.
4.
Extrication.