Emit
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Emit may refer to: melisa
  • Emit, North Carolina
    Emit, North Carolina
    Emit is an unincorporated community in Johnston County, North Carolina, at the intersction North Carolina Highway 39, and North Carolina Highway 231. It lies at an elevation of 285 feet ....

    , an unincorporated community
  • Em:t Records
    Em:t Records
    Em:t Records was a British record label, based in Nottingham, which specialized in ambient electronic music. They were active from 1994 to 1998, and after a period of bankruptcy, re-established themselves in 2003 under new ownership and management...

    , a British record label that specializes in ambient music
    Ambient music
    Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

    . Technically the name has a colon in place of the letter "I", but it is pronounced (and often erroneously written) like the common word "emit".
  • Cornish derogatory slang for a tourist or newcomer
    Emmet (Cornish)
    Emmet is a pejorative nickname that some Cornish people use to refer to the many tourists who visit Cornwall.-Etymology:It is commonly thought to be derived from the Cornish-language word for ant, being an analogy to the way in which both tourists and ants are often red in colour and appear to mill...

    , especially one that has a second home or attempts to drive inappropriately large cars around country lanes or villages. This derives from the Old English word for 'ant
    Ant
    Ants are social insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130 million years ago and diversified after the rise of flowering plants. More than...

    '. Pronounced Em-mit rather than e-MIT.
  • EMIT or Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique
    Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique
    Enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique, or EMIT, is a common method for screening urine and blood for drugs, both legal or illicit. First introduced by Syva Company in 1973, it is the first homogeneous immunoassay to be widely used commercially....

    , a common drug test
  • Emission
    Emission
    Emission may refer to:* Flue gas, also:** Exhaust gas, flue gas occurring as a result of the combustion of a fuel* Emission of air pollutants...

  • EMIT (corporation), a Norwegian timing equipment manufacturer
  • Emit (video game)
    Emit (video game)
    Emit is a video game released for the Super Famicom in 1995. It is a sound novel game. The game comes in 3 volumes, each with its own cartridge and an audio CD....

    , a visual novel video game about time travel and was released on various video game systems. One of the first fan translated video games.

See also

  • Emmet
    Emmet (Cornish)
    Emmet is a pejorative nickname that some Cornish people use to refer to the many tourists who visit Cornwall.-Etymology:It is commonly thought to be derived from the Cornish-language word for ant, being an analogy to the way in which both tourists and ants are often red in colour and appear to mill...

     - Cornish slang term for Tourist. Sometimes spelt Emmit/Emit.
  • Emitter (disambiguation)
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