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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

reeject en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + eject.

Meanings

  1. To eject again.
    • An average fission product originating in the collected material was found to reeject about 10,000 atoms, whereas one originating in the emitter reejected only about 1000 atoms. 1964, Reactor Materials - Volumes 7-9, page 191:
    • ...whereas nuclear power is used to reeject matter at higher than SN velocities through the BLR, NLR, and galactic halo, enriching the IGM with metals. 2006, Wolfgang Kundt, Astrophysics: A New Approach, →ISBN, page 112:
    • Moreover, to maintain a normal output, the ventricles have to continually reeject the regurgitated blood and are in a situation not unlike a person desperately trying to bale water out of a rapidly leaking boat. 1989, R. A. Cawson, Pathology, the mechanisms of disease, page 228:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
reejects Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
reejected Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reejected Tense=Past lexicographic
reejecting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic