Word: emitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beautiful girl with a big, beautiful voice, and deserves better. She can belt it out with the best of them when belting is required, but she has a comic sense unusual in a soprano, and manages, almost miraculously, to avoid giving the impression that she is about to emit a "ho-jo-to-ho," grab a horse, and make it back to Valhalla...
Evidence which would seem to back up this theory was that the 27-day period of rotation of the sun (with its spots and flares thought to emit charged particles) corresponded roughly with the periods indicated by the satellites, and that the sharp increase in acceleration at the end of August was also two weeks of strong geomagnetic activity. The problem that remained was to find some traceable phenomenon of the sun that could be compared with the daily fluctuations in the acceleration of the satellites (by this time all five satellites showed the same acceleration characteristics, which occurred simultaneously...
...Emit" means "send out." The amount of light sent out, or "emitted," by a filament depends on how (hot) the filament...
This process accomplishes a gradual and comprehensive replacement of the indistinct general terms by the technical ones. "Filament" replaces "fine wire"; "emit" takes the place of "glow" and "give off light", and then the word "emit" is inflected in different ways for greater familiarity with terms...
Battle for Brains. With Lehman-raised cash, Thornton and associates bought Litton, then a small microwave-tube outfit that had supplied Hughes with its best magnetrons, i.e., vacuum tubes that emit radar impulses. During the next 15 months, Litton used stock and cash to pick up half a dozen little-known firms making computers, printed circuits, servomechanisms, communications and navigation equipment. When Litton bought Digital Controls Systems Inc. in 1954, it also got brilliant Research Scientist George Steele; Steele heads Litton's work on lightweight computers that make up to 15,000 calculations per second for a plane...