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emanant

adj · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Flowing forth; emanating or issuing from or as if from a source.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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adj

Meaning 2

Passing forth into a physical act, or making itself apparent by an effect. Compare immanent.

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Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences

Examples

  • He had an emanant volition.

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noun

Meaning 3

The result of operating any number of times upon a quantic with the operator (x'd/dx + y'd/dy + ... + z'd/dz).

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Topics: mathematics, sciences

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History

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin present participle ēmānāns, ēmānantis, from verb ēmānō (“to flow out, arise”), from ex- (“out of, from”) + mānō.