ejection
/əˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/ noun
Forms ejections
- noun The act of ejecting. “ejection seat”
- noun That which is ejected. “Volcanic ejection covered the village in ash.”
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle French éjection, from Latin eiectio.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast ejection of ashes." Eustace. "The ejection of a word." Johnson.
- noun The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.
Etymology [L. ejectio: cf. F. éjection.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “ejection”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details