egression

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The act of going

   The act of going; egress.

   • That so thou mayest have a triumphal egression
   • Such things as these which are extraordinary egressions and transvolations beyond the ordinary course of an even piety, God loves to reward with an extraordinary favour […]
   • Suicide is the ultimate egression, besides which running away from home, quitting a job, deserting an army, leaving a spouse, seem to pale.
2. 2

   A calculated version of the wave field that emanated from a specified location at a…

   A calculated version of the wave field that emanated from a specified location at a specified time.

   • The egression (H₊) is simply the time reverse of Equation (1).
   • Similarly applied to the acoustic egression, <[H₊(r,t)]²>, the result is an "egression-power map".
   • The difference between the egression power plots representing the acoustic glory and those representing the quiet Sun are fairly conspicuous.
3. 3

   The location of a feature on an ammonite fossil outward from the line of the shell's…

   The location of a feature on an ammonite fossil outward from the line of the shell's spiral.

   • The reason for this lies in the fact that a wide-shell-band, running along the margin of the egression, is superposed directly upon the shell of the preceding whorl.
   • According to Klinger and Kennedy (1989), the hoplitoidean Placenticeras kaffarium displays a rather strong umbilical egression, which gives it a scaphitoid adult morphology.
   • Egression of the umbilical suture line on the last whorl of an adult and complete speciment is one morphologic feature which is unambiguous evidence of maturity in ammonites.
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   1. 4

      A centralized or top-down organization.

      • Experience and the will of one person were becoming an increasingly more determining moment in the practice of the entire collective: a stable egression was developing.
      • The most obvious example of egression was the relationship of the brain to the sensory organs and other nerve centres of the body.
   2. 5

      A legitimate implication an existing law.

      • This conclusion is an egression from federalism principles.
      • The tenet, accordingly, has some claim to stand as an egression of "natural" right, even when "natural" is taken in an evolutionary sense.

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