emission
    n 1: the act of emitting; causing to flow forth [syn:
         emission, emanation]
    2: a substance that is emitted or released [syn: discharge,
       emission]
    3: the release of electrons from parent atoms
    4: any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of
       the body; "the discharge of pus" [syn: discharge,
       emission, expelling]
    5: the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)

Emission \E*mis"sion\, n. [L. emissio: cf. F. ['e]mission. See
   Emit.]
   1. The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending
      forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission
      of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire;
      the emission of bank notes.
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   2. That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at
      one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood.
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   Emission theory (Physics), the theory of Newton, regarding
      light as consisting of emitted particles or corpuscles.
      See Corpuscular theory, under Corpuscular.
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EMISSION, med. jur. The act by which any matter whatever is thrown from the 
body; thus it is usual to say, emission of urine, emission of semen, &c. 
     2. In cases of rape, when the fact of penetration is proved, it may be 
left to the jury whether emission did or did not take place. Proof of 
emission would perhaps be held to be evidence of penetration. Addis. R. 143; 
2 So. Car. Const. R. 351; 2 Chitty, Crim. Law, 810; 1 Beck's Med. Jur. 140 1 
Russ. C. & M. 560; 1 East, P. C. 437.