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e·jec·tion

(ĭ-jĕk′shən)

1. The act of ejecting or the condition of being ejected.

2. Ejected matter.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

ejection

1. Escape from an aircraft by means of an independently propelled seat or capsule.
2. In air armament, the process of forcefully separating an aircraft store from an aircraft to achieve satisfactory separation.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Noun	1.	ejection - the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting forcing out, expulsion, projection actuation, propulsion - the act of propelling belch, burp, burping, eructation, belching - a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth belching - the forceful expulsion of something from inside; "the belching of smoke from factory chimneys" coughing up - the act of expelling (food or phlegm) by coughing spitting, expectoration, spit - the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) disgorgement, emesis, puking, vomiting, regurgitation, vomit - the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth
	2.	ejection - the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school" expulsion, riddance, exclusion defenestration - the act of throwing someone or something out of a window banishment, proscription - rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone 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 ousting, ouster - the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out

ejection

noun

1. expulsion, removal, ouster (Law), deportation, eviction, banishment, exile the ejection of hecklers at the meeting

2. dismissal, sacking (informal), firing (informal), removal, discharge, the boot (slang), expulsion, the sack (informal), dislodgement These actions led to his ejection from office.

3. emission, throwing out, expulsion, spouting, casting out, disgorgement the ejection of an electron by an atomic nucleus

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

ejection

noun

The act of ejecting or the state of being ejected:

dismissal, ejectment, eviction, expulsion, ouster.

Slang: boot, bounce.

Translations

طَرْد ، قَذْف

bortvisningudsmidning

Vertreibung

expulsion

katapultálás

brottrekstur; òaî sem òeytist út

eiezione

utdriving utkasting

vyhodenie

atılmafırlama

弹射出驱逐

ejection

[ɪˈdʒekʃən] N → expulsión f; [of tenant] → desahucio m; [of pilot] → eyección f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

ejection

[ɪˈdʒɛkʃ^ən] n (= expulsion) [people] → expulsion fejector seat [ɪˈdʒɛktə^r] n → siège m éjectable

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

ejection

n → Hinauswurf m; (of cartridge) → Auswerfen nt; (Tech) → Ausstoß m; ejection is the pilot’s last resort → Betätigung des Schleudersitzes ist die letzte Rettung für den Piloten

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

ejection

[ɪˈdʒɛkʃ/ən] n (gen) → espulsione f; (of bomb) → sganciamento, lancio

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

eject

(iˈdʒekt) verb

1. to throw out with force; to force to leave. They were ejected from their house for not paying the rent.

2. to leave an aircraft in an emergency by causing one's seat to be ejected. The pilot had to eject when his plane caught fire.

eˈjection (-ʃən) noun

e·jec·tion

n. eyección, acto de expulsar con fuerza;

___ murmur → soplo de ___;

___ sound → ruido de ___.

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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.

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This mass was broken either in its ejection or its fall, and wonderful was the internal organization revealed.

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As it happened, indeed, the whole company were equally lucky, if less dignified in their form of ejection. Immediately under this abrupt turn of the road was a grassy and flowery hollow like a sunken meadow; a sort of green velvet pocket in the long, green, trailing garments of the hills.

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The trial was conducted in patients with reduced ejection fraction on standard of care treatment, including those with and without type-2 diabetes.

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Collins Aerospace Systems has announced it has conducted reviews on the upgraded version of its ACES II ejection seat for the US Air Force's Safety and Sustainment Improvement Program (SSIP) for B-2 bombers, the company said.

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After firing, when the bolt moves back and rotates, the cartridge case rim pivots on the extractor hook (the part pulling the case out of the chamber) to send the case out through the ejection port.

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The study published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure examined the impact of dietary nitrate in the form of beetroot juice supplements on the exercise capacity of eight heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction, a condition in which the heart muscle doesn't contract effectively and can't get enough oxygen-rich blood to the body.

Beetroot juice supplements can benefit heart failure patients: Study

The ejection force depends on the shrinkage of the polymer, the surface roughness of the mold and the coefficient of friction between the mold and the molded part [17] at the ejection time as well as on the material properties and even on the part geometry [18-21].

Experimental Study of Shrinkage and Ejection Forces of Reinforced Polypropylene Based on Nanoclays and Short Glass Fibers

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military has recorded "highly unusual and unprecedented levels" of activity by North Korea's Romeo-class submarine force in Japan's waters, including evidence of a nuclear "ejection test" after Pyongyang's second intercontinental ballistic missile test.