effusion

See also: Effusion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French effusion, from Latin effūsiō (“outpouring”). Displaced native Old English āgotennes.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -uːʒən

Noun

effusion (countable and uncountable, plural effusions)

1. A liquid outpouring.

   Antonym: infusion

   Coordinate terms: transfusion, perfusion

3. (chemistry, physics) Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules.
4. (figurative, by extension) An outpouring of speech or emotion.
   • 1930; George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby; Animal Crackers, Paramount Pictures

     Captain Spaulding: My friends, I am highly gratified by this magnificent display of effusion […]

   • 1946, William Hatfield, Buffalo Jim, Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege, page 70:

     The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.

5. (medicine) The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.

   Hyponyms: hydrothorax, hemothorax

   Coordinate term: edema

   pleural effusion

Derived terms

• choroidal effusion
• effusiometer
• noneffusion

Related terms

• effusive

Translations

outpouring of liquid

• Arabic: اِنْدِفَاق m (indifāq), اِنْصِبَاب m (inṣibāb)
• Bulgarian: изливане (bg) n (izlivane), изтичане (bg) n (iztičane)
• Catalan: efusió f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: výlev (cs) m, výtok m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: uitstorting (nl)
• Finnish: valuminen (fi), effuusio (fi)
• French: effusion (fr) f
• Georgian: ეფუზია (ka) (epuzia)
• German: Ausfluss (de) m, Erguss (de) m
• Italian: effusione (it) f, spargimento (it) m, travaso (it) m
• Latin: effūsiō f
• Portuguese: efusão (pt) f
• Slovak: výlev m, výtok m
• Spanish: efusión (es) f
• Tagalog: panlalagos
• Turkish: efüzyon

chemistry, physics: process

• Arabic: تَدَفُّق m (tadaffuq)
• Czech: efuze f
• Finnish: effuusio (fi)
• French: effusion (fr) f
• German: Effusion f
• Indonesian: efusi (id)

outpouring of speech or emotion

• Catalan: efusió f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: (citový) výlev m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: vuodatus (fi)
• French: effusion (fr) f
• German: Erguss (de) m, Ausbruch (de) m
• Italian: effusione (it) f, effusioni (it) m pl
• Portuguese: efusão (pt) f
• Slovak: výlev m
• Spanish: efusión (es) f

seeping of fluid into a body cavity

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: výron m, výtok m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: effuusio (fi)
• French: effusion (fr) f
• German: Erguss (de) m
• Indonesian: efusi (id)
• Italian: effusione (it) f
• Portuguese: efusão (pt) f
• Spanish: derrame (es) m

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French effusion, borrowed from Latin effusiōnem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

effusion f (plural effusions)

1. effusion

Further reading

• “effusion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.