Usually means: Radiates light or energy outward.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word emissive:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. emissive: Merriam-Webster
  2. emissive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. emissive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. emissive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. emissive: Wordnik
  6. emissive: Wiktionary
  7. emissive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. emissive: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Emissive, emissive: Dictionary.com
  10. Emissive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. emissive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Emissive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. emissive: FreeDictionary.org
  14. emissive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emissive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emissive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (emissive)

▸ adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or having the capacity to emit radiation or matter; emitting

Similar:
photoemissive, emissarial, emanatory, emanative, radiant, emanational, radiative, irradiant, radiate, ejective, more...

Opposite:
receptive, absorptive, passive

Types:
black body, gray body, Planck's law, Wien's law, more...

Phrases:
emissive power, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, non, highly, weakly, called

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Similar:
photoemissive, emissarial, emanatory, emanative, radiant, emanational, radiative, irradiant, radiate, ejective, more...

Opposite:
receptive, absorptive, passive

Types:
black body, gray body, Planck's law, Wien's law, more...

Phrases:
emissive power, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, non, highly, weakly, called



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