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EJECTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
Synonyms:
ejection; expulsion; forcing out; projection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ejection" is a kind of...):
actuation; propulsion (the act of propelling)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ejection"):
belch; belching; burp; burping; eructation (a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth)
belching (the forceful expulsion of something from inside)
coughing up (the act of expelling (food or phlegm) by coughing)
expectoration; spit; spitting (the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva))
disgorgement; emesis; puking; regurgitation; vomit; vomiting (the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth)
Derivation:
eject (eliminate (a substance))
eject (cause to come out in a squirt)
eject (leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of forcing out someone or something
Example:
the child's expulsion from school
Synonyms:
ejection; exclusion; expulsion; riddance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ejection" is a kind of...):
banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ejection"):
defenestration (the act of throwing someone or something out of a window)
deportation (the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien)
ostracism (the act of excluding someone from society by general consent)
barring; blackball (the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto)
ouster; ousting (the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out)
Derivation:
eject (put out or expel from a place)
Context examples:
“The two scenarios we are working on are a cooling of the surface due to exceptional stellar activity or dust ejection towards us,” says Montargès.
(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)
The left ventricular ejection fraction is equal to the left ventricular stroke volume divided by the left ventricular end diastolic volume.
(Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction, NCI Thesaurus)
A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014, and NASA's newest solar observatory caught it in extraordinary detail.
(Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material, NASA)
Solar storms often include an eruption on the sun called a coronal mass ejection, or CME.
(Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth, NASA)
Solar activity refers to emissions from the Sun, including solar flares and eruptions of material called coronal mass ejections.
(NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space, NASA)
These events, called coronal mass ejections, generate shock, or pressure, waves.
(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)
In the past three years, the Sun has gone through periods of higher and lower solar activity, and Mars also has experienced solar storms, solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
(Mars Mission Sheds Light on Habitability of Distant Planets, NASA)
For nature (as the physicians allege) having intended the superior anterior orifice only for the intromission of solids and liquids, and the inferior posterior for ejection, these artists ingeniously considering that in all diseases nature is forced out of her seat, therefore, to replace her in it, the body must be treated in a manner directly contrary, by interchanging the use of each orifice; forcing solids and liquids in at the anus, and making evacuations at the mouth.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Normal ejection fraction is 0.50 or more (>50%).
(Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)
The team observed the three largest particle-ejection events on Jan. 6 and 19, and Feb. 11, and concluded that the events originated from different locations on Bennu's surface.
(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)
