Meaning of EJECTION
| Pronunciation: | | i'jekshun
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- [n] the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
- [n] the act of expelling someone
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| | Synonyms: | | exclusion, expulsion, forcing out, projection, riddance |
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| | See Also: | | actuation, banishment, barring, belch, belching, blackball, burp, burping, coughing up, defenestration, deportation, disgorgement, emesis, eructation, expectoration, ostracism, ouster, ousting, propulsion, proscription, puking, regurgitation, spit, spitting, vomit, vomiting | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \E*jec"tion\, n. [L. ejectio: cf. F. ['e]jection.]
1. The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion;
evacuation. ``Vast ejection of ashes.'' --Eustace. ``The
ejection of a word.'' --Johnson.
2. (Physiol.) The act or process of discharging anything from
the body, particularly the excretions.
3. The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession;
banishment.
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| | Related Terms: | | banishment, bowshot, bullet, cannon, cashiering, clearance, conge, dejecta, dejection, dejecture, deportation, detachment, detonation, discard, discharge, disgorgement, disjunction, dismissal, disposal, disposition, dispossession, effluent, effusion, egesta, egestion, ejaculation, ejecta, ejectamenta, elimination, emission, eradication, eviction, excrement, excreta, excretes, excretion, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extravasate, extravasation, extrusion, exudate, exudation, firing, flow, flux, fusillade, gun, gunfire, gunshot, liquidation, ostracism, ouster, outburst, outlawing, outlawry, potshot, purge, removal, riddance, sacking, salvo, secretion, severance, shot, spray, stoneshot, suspension, tattoo, the boot, the bounce, the sack, throwing out, transudate, transudation, volley, waste, waste matter, withdrawal |
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