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radiation

noun
/ˌɹeɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/CA/ˌɹæɪ.diˈæɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin radiatio, radiationis. By surface analysis, radiate + -ion.

  1. borrowed from radiatio

Definitions

  1. The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light.

    • The radiation of love from the crowd was addictive to the young singer-songwriters.

  2. The process of radiating waves or particles.

  3. The transfer of energy via radiation.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Radioactive energy.

      • It's Christmas at ground zero / And if the radiation level's OK / I'll go out with you / To see all the new / Mutations on New Year's Day

    2. A rapid diversification of an ancestral species into many new forms.

      • So the question is: have plants and animals retained over this huge amount of time—whole radiations of mammals have come and gone in this period—have they retained these potentially costly characteristics?
      • The second [canid group] is the radiation of dogs in South America that began when the first canids arrived about 3 Ma, after crossing the Panama land bridge (Fig. 5.4).

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Derived

acute radiation syndrome, adaptive radiation, alpha radiation, antiradiation, Askaryan radiation, background radiation, background radiation equivalent time, beta radiation, bioradiation, broadcast radiation, Cerenkov radiation, chemoradiation, Cherenkov radiation, cosmic background radiation, cosmic radiation, electromagnetic radiation, eradiation, gamma radiation, gravitational radiation, Hawking radiation, infrared radiation, ionising radiation, ionizing radiation, medium-wavelength infrared radiation, microwave radiation, microwave-radiation, non-ionizing radiation, nuclear radiation, postradiation, preradiation, radiational, radiation belt, radiation biology, radiation chemistry, radiation damage, radiation dose, radiation fog, radiation hardening, radiation impedance, radiationist · +25 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at radiation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01radiation02energy03distance04modifying05altering06alteration07altered08exposed09vulnerable10extinction

A definitional loop anchored at radiation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at radiation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA