Egression

/ɪˈɡɹɛʃən/ · noun

Meaning

The act of going; egress..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of going; egress.
2. (physics) A calculated version of the wave field that emanated from a specified location at a specified time.
3. (paleobiology) The location of a feature on an ammonite fossil outward from the line of the shell's spiral.
4. (sociology, systems theory) A centralized or top-down organization.
5. (law) A legitimate implication an existing law.

Example Sentences

That so thou mayest have a triumphal egression

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.

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

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

Similarly applied to the acoustic egression, <[H₊(r,t)]²>, the result is an "egression-power map".

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.

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