gamma ray

Questions about gamma ray

What is another word for gamma ray?

It depends which gamma ray you mean. In the sense “electromagnetic radiation emitted during radioactive decay and having an extremely short wavelength”, the synonyms are gamma radiation. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of gamma ray?

WordNet records no antonym for gamma ray. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for gamma ray come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of gamma ray

• Full entry for gamma rayAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for gamma rayWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.