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emitter

[ ih-mit-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that emits.
  2. Electronics. an electrode on a transistor from which a flow of electrons or holes enters the region between the electrodes.


emitter

/ ɪˈɪə /

noun

  1. a person or thing that emits
  2. a radioactive substance that emits radiation

    a beta emitter

  3. the region in a transistor in which the charge-carrying holes or electrons originate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of emitter1

First recorded in 1880–85; emit + -er 1
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“The bottom line is this is a giveaway to emitters, just letting them off the hook entirely,” said Rachel Cleetus, senior policy director with the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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Albanese's government enshrined into law a boosted emissions cut target, and introduced a mechanism that acts as a carbon cap for the country's biggest emitters - though experts say more ambition is needed.

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Or they can detect the smaller and more spread-out emitters that are much more common, such as cattle farms.

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Critics of the power station have called it one of the UK's leading emitters of the climate warming gas CO2, but Drax disputes that description.

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Fixing our food system could reduce the public and private costs of ill health, enhance farmers' incomes, reduce food import dependence, and transform agriculture from a net emitter to a net absorber of carbon emissions.

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