Emitted
[ɪ'mɪt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Emit
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Examples
- The pitch of the sound emitted by a column of air vibrating within a pipe varies according to the following laws: 1. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Mr. Sillerton Jackson stretched his ankles nearer the coals and emitted a sardonic whistle. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The pitch of a note emitted by an open pipe is one octave higher than that of a closed pipe of equal length. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Air columns vibrate in segments just as do strings, and the tone emitted by a pipe of given length is complex, consisting of the fundamental and one or more overtones. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There seemed a faint, white light emitted from him, a white aura, as if he were visitor from the unseen. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At this moment the fiddles finished off with a screech, and the serpent emitted a last note that nearly lifted the roof. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Newton's hypothesis that light is due to particles emitted by all luminous bodies yielded, at least for the time, to the theory of light vibrations in an ether pervading all space. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He presented, altogether, rather a mildewy appearance, and emitted a fragrant odour of full-flavoured Cubas. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But these were objectionable on account of the fumes emitted. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And then Kerchak emitted the volleying challenge of his kind. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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