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Emersion

noun

(astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse. Synonym: egress.

The act of emerging. Synonym: emergence.

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"Emersion" Quotes from Famous Books

... who, believing in Atlantis, have sought to explain the cataclysm in which they suppose the island to have sunk. Without exception, they have thought that it was swallowed up. Actually, there has not been an immersion. There has been an emersion. New lands have emerged from the Atlantic wave. The desert has replaced the sea, the sebkhas, the salt lakes, the Triton lakes, the sandy Syrtes are the desolate vestiges of the free sea water over which, in former days, the fleets swept with a fair wind towards the conquest of ...

— Atlantida • Pierre Benoit

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Words linked to "Emersion" : appearance, emerge, immersion, ingress, occultation, eclipse, uranology, astronomy, reappearance