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What is the difference between emission and pollution?

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As nouns the difference between emission and pollution

is that emission is that which is emitted or sent out; issue while pollution is the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.

emission

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which is emitted or sent out; issue.
  • The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation.
  • Synonyms

    * (act of sending out) issuance

    Derived terms

    * emission line * emission nebula * emissions test * nocturnal emission

    Anagrams

    * ----

    pollution

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.
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  • Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
  • (archaic) Physical defilement.
  • (medicine, obsolete) The emission of semen at other times than in sexual intercourse.
  • * 1839 , Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon'', Blanchard, page 492 defines ''POLLUTION as:
  • The excretion of seminal liquor or sperm, at other times than during coition. When occasioned by a voluntary act it is called, simply, Pollution'' or ''Masturbation'' (q.v.); when excited, during sleep, by lascivious dreams, it takes the name ''Noctur'nal pollution, Exoneiro'sis, Oneirog'mos, Oneirog'onos, Gonorrhœ'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrhœ'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution.

    Synonyms

    * soilage * (masturbation) self-pollution

    Antonyms

    * conservation * purity

    Derived terms

    * air pollution * light pollution * noise pollution * self-pollution * soil pollution * water pollution