greenhouse emission

1. 1.

   a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation

   Synonymsgreenhouse gas

   Broadergas

   Narrowerchlorofluorocarboncarbon dioxidehydrofluorocarbonperfluorocarbonsulfur hexafluoride

Questions about greenhouse emission

What does greenhouse emission mean?

greenhouse emission means "a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation".

What is another word for greenhouse emission?

Close synonyms include greenhouse gas. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is greenhouse emission a common word?

greenhouse 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.