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Effusion

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A liquid outpouring. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    flow under pressure wordnet
  3. 3
    Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    an unrestrained expression of emotion wordnet
  5. 5
    An outpouring of speech or emotion. broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "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 […]"

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  1. 6
    The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself. countable, uncountable

    "pleural effusion"

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French effusion, from Latin effūsiō (“outpouring”). Displaced native Old English āgotennes.

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