astronomy The reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse.

synonym: egress.

Roget 295: egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption^†; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation [Med.], perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush etc. (water in motion) 348; outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion; effluxion^†, drain; dribbling etc. v.; defluxion^†; drainage; outcome, output; discharge etc. (excretion) 299.    export, expatriation; emigration, remigration^†; debouch, debouche; emunctory^†; exodus etc. (departure) 293; emigrant.    outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory, outgate^†, sally port; way out; mouth, door etc. (opening) 260; path etc. (way) 627; conduit etc. 350; airpipe etc. 351^†.    ... show more

The act of emerging.

synonym: emergence.