Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the power or tendency to emit matter or energy; emitting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sending out; emitting; radiating, as light.
- Pertaining to Newton's explanation of light by the theory of emission. See
emission .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sending out; emitting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or having the capacity to
emit radiation ormatter ;emitting
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Examples
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The only colours that should have any emissive are those that radiate light - but then it shows a limitation of the studio package - the emissive should be a light-source as it's radiated light (e.g. a glowing red-hot metal bar should have a red emissive that should cast a red-light onto the surrounding parts).
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The only colours that should have any emissive are those that radiate light - but then it shows a limitation of the studio package - the emissive should be a light-source as it's radiated light (e.g. a glowing red-hot metal bar should have a red emissive that should cast a red-light onto the surrounding parts).
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Triple-glazed, low-emissive windows will become common, accounting for up to a third of sales in colder climates.
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Because LCD and plasma TVs produce images in a fundamentally different manner—plasma is an emissive technology that generates light, whereas LCD is a transmissive technology that requires a backlight—there will also be some features unique to each type of display.
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Because LCD and plasma TVs produce images in a fundamentally different manner — plasma is an emissive technology that generates light, whereas LCD is a transmissive technology that requires a backlight — there will also be some features unique to each type of display.
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One of the optical holy grails is for a true flat black, e.g. a black materials that is completely absorptive and thermally emissive at all wavelengths.
Eli Rabett and RW Wood EliRabett 2009
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Somewhere in the middle is the wise farmer who ships his corn on the river, which is less emissive than trucking it to the processing plant.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Help Me Out, My Organic Chemistry is Rusty… 2009
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But this idea is about not only the color of a roof but also its solar reflectance (SR) and thermal emittance (TE), which are rated on a scale of 0 to 1, with 1 being the most reflective or emissive.
Buzzword: Cool Roof 2009
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But this idea is about not only the color of a roof but also its solar reflectance (SR) and thermal emittance (TE), which are rated on a scale of 0 to 1, with 1 being the most reflective or emissive.
Buzzword: Cool Roof 2009
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The nano-emissive display is said to have a better quality, durability and economics than most traditional forms of display technology.
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