different between effusion vs succession

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French effusion, from Latin eff?si? (“outpouring”). Displaced native Old English ?gotennes.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u???n

Noun

effusion (countable and uncountable, plural effusions)

1. A liquid outpouring.
2. (chemistry) Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules.
3. (figuratively, by extension) An outpouring of speech or emotion.
   • 1930; George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby; Animal Crackers, Paramount Pictures

     Captain Spaulding: My friends, I am highly gratified by this magnificent display of effusion […]

4. (medicine) The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French effusion, borrowed from Latin effusio, effusionem.

Noun

effusion f (plural effusions)

1. effusion

Further reading

• “effusion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Old French succession, from Latin successio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s?k?s??.?n/

Noun

succession (countable and uncountable, plural successions)

1. An act of following in sequence.
2. A sequence of things in order.
3. A passing of royal powers.
4. A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
5. A race or series of descendants.
6. (agriculture) Rotation, as of crops.
7. A right to take possession.
8. (historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
9. (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.

Synonyms

• (an act of following in sequence): See Thesaurus:posteriority
• (a sequence of things in order): See Thesaurus:sequence

Derived terms

• successional
• successionary

Related terms

• successive

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin successio, successionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syk.s?.sj??/

Noun

succession f (plural successions)

1. succession
2. Series
3. Inheritance, as in the passing of possessions from a deceased person to his or her inheritors

Derived terms

• droits de succession

Further reading

• “succession” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).