egression — English Dictionary

egression
Pronunciations (2)
  • /ɪˈɡɹɛʃən/
  • ɪˈɡɹɛʃən

Noun

  1. The act of going; egress.

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    That so thou mayest have a triumphal egression

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    Such things as these which are extraordinary egressions and transvolations beyond the ordinary course of an even piety, God loves to reward with an extraordinary favour […]

    Suicide is the ultimate egression, besides which running away from home, quitting a job, deserting an army, leaving a spouse, seem to pale.

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    Because of molar egression and incisor ingression in the lower jaw, an analogous tipping of the lower occlusal plane will occur.

  2. A calculated version of the wave field that emanated from a specified location at a specified time.

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    The egression (H₊) is simply the time reverse of Equation (1).

    Similarly applied to the acoustic egression, , the result is an "egression-power map".

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    The difference between the egression power plots representing the acoustic glory and those representing the quiet Sun are fairly conspicuous.

    We are not able to reliably identify with the TD method any visible acoustic sources at the southern egression source locations 1 and 2, perhaps due to different physical conditions in these locations and the strong transient magnetic field variations and atmospheric contribution present in the GONG velocity observations.

  3. The location of a feature on an ammonite fossil outward from the line of the shell's spiral.

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    The reason for this lies in the fact that a wide-shell-band, running along the margin of the egression, is superposed directly upon the shell of the preceding whorl.

    According to Klinger and Kennedy (1989), the hoplitoidean Placenticeras kaffarium displays a rather strong umbilical egression, which gives it a scaphitoid adult morphology.

    Egression of the umbilical suture line on the last whorl of an adult and complete speciment is one morphologic feature which is unambiguous evidence of maturity in ammonites.

  4. A centralized or top-down organization.

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    Experience and the will of one person were becoming an increasingly more determining moment in the practice of the entire collective: a stable egression was developing.

    The most obvious example of egression was the relationship of the brain to the sensory organs and other nerve centres of the body.

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    In machine production a new link of egression –a mechanism –is introduced between the hand of man and the working tool. Thus, a new broadening of egression is also achieved, and quite a significant one at that: the mechanism is free from the biological limitation of organs of the body and can control at the same time an indefinitely large number of instruments.

  5. A legitimate implication an existing law.

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    This conclusion is an egression from federalism principles.

    The tenet, accordingly, has some claim to stand as an egression of "natural" right, even when "natural" is taken in an evolutionary sense.

Noun

  1. the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent

Word forms
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