field emission

1. 1.

   the emission of electrons that are stripped from parent atoms by a high electric field

   Broaderemission

Questions about field emission

What does field emission mean?

field emission means "the emission of electrons that are stripped from parent atoms by a high electric field".

Is field emission a common word?

field emission is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.