thermal emission

1. 1.

   the emission of electrons from very hot substances

   Synonymsthermionic emission

   Broaderemission

Questions about thermal emission

What does thermal emission mean?

thermal emission means "the emission of electrons from very hot substances".

What is another word for thermal emission?

Close synonyms include thermionic emission. 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 thermal emission a common word?

thermal 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.