emittent

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin emittens, present participle emittere.

Adjective

emittent (comparative more emittent, superlative most emittent)

1. Sending forth; emissive.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “emittent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) ēmittent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of ēmittō