effusion
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French effusion, from Latin effūsiō (“outpouring”). Displaced native Old English āgotennes.
Pronunciation
Noun
effusion (countable and uncountable, plural effusions)
- A liquid outpouring.
- Antonym: infusion
- Coordinate terms: transfusion, perfusion
- (chemistry, physics) Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules.
- (figurative, by extension) An outpouring of speech or emotion.
- 1930; George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby; Animal Crackers, Paramount Pictures
- Captain Spaulding: My friends, I am highly gratified by this magnificent display of effusion
- 1946, William Hatfield, Buffalo Jim, Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege, page 70:
- The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.
- 1930; George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby; Animal Crackers, Paramount Pictures
- (medicine) The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.
- Hyponyms: hydrothorax, hemothorax
- Coordinate term: edema
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Translations
outpouring of liquid
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chemistry, physics: process
outpouring of speech or emotion
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seeping of fluid into a body cavity
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French effusion, borrowed from Latin effusiōnem.
Pronunciation
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Noun
effusion f (plural effusions)
Further reading
- “effusion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.