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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EJEC'TION, n. [L. ejectio.] The act of casting out; expulsion.
1. Dismission from office.
2. Dispossession; a turning out from possession by force or authority.
3. The discharge of any excrementitious matter through the pores or other emunctories; evacuation; vomiting.
4. Rejection.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting [syn: expulsion, projection, ejection, forcing out]
2: the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school" [syn: ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance]

Merriam Webster's

noun see eject

U.S. Military Dictionary

(*) 1. Escape from an aircraft by means of an independently propelled seat or capsule. 2. In air armament, the process of forcefully separating an aircraft store from an aircraft to achieve satisfactory separation.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. the act or an instance of ejecting; the process of being ejected. Phrases and idioms: ejection seat = ejector seat.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ejection E*jec"tion, n. [L. ejectio: cf. F. ['e]jection.] 1. The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. ``Vast ejection of ashes.'' --Eustace. ``The ejection of a word.'' --Johnson. 2. (Physiol.) The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions. 3. The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see eject

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Expulsion, dismission, discharge, extrusion, banishment, thrusting out, turning out.

Moby Thesaurus

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