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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: emersion n 1: (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse [syn: {egress}] 2: the act of emerging [syn: {emergence}]
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