secondary emission

1. 1.

   the emission of electrons from a surface that is bombarded by higher energy primary electrons

   Broaderemission

Questions about secondary emission

What does secondary emission mean?

secondary emission means "the emission of electrons from a surface that is bombarded by higher energy primary electrons".

Is secondary emission a common word?

secondary 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.