Irradiation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of exposing or the condition of being exposed to radiation.
  • n. The use or application of ionizing radiation, especially in medical treatment and for the sterilization or preservation of food.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.
  • n. illumination; irradiance; brilliance.
  • n. figurative: mental light or illumination.
  • n. the apparent enlargement of a bright object seen upon a dark ground, due to the fact that the portions of the retina around the image are stimulated by the intense light; as when a dark spot on a white ground appears smaller, or a white spot on a dark ground larger, than it really is, especially when a little out of focus.
  • n. a process of sterilisation whereby radiation is passed through a bag containing food, utensils, etc., to sterilise the contents.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.
  • n. Illumination; irradiance; brilliancy.
  • n. Fig.: Mental light or illumination.
  • n. The apparent enlargement of a bright object seen upon a dark ground, due to the fact that the portions of the retina around the image are stimulated by the intense light; as when a dark spot on a white ground appears smaller, or a white spot on a dark ground larger, than it really is, esp. when a little out of focus.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of irradiating or emitting beams of light; illumination; brightness emitted; enlightenment.
  • n. In physics, the phenomenon of the apparent enlargement of an object strongly illuminated, when seen against a dark ground.
  • n. In neurology, the diffusion of a nervous impulse to parts outside the normal path of conduction.
  • n. In therapeutics, subjection to the influence of X-rays or other form of radioactivity.
  • n. In anatomy, the disposition of fibrous or other structures in stellate form.
  • n. In chem., exposure to radiant light: as, some substances are said to phosphoresce by irradiation.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex
  • n. (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
  • n. a column of light (as from a beacon)
  • n. the condition of being exposed to radiation
  • n. the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background
  • n. (Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    spreading    spread    condition    status    semblance   
    Form
    photoirradiation   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    illumination    irradiance    brilliancy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    spectrometer    radiations    radiation    diffraction    spectroscopy   
     
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