roentgen ray

Questions about roentgen ray

What is another word for roentgen ray?

It depends which roentgen ray you mean. In the sense “electromagnetic radiation of short wavelength produced when high-speed electrons strike a solid target”, the synonyms are X ray, X-ray, X-radiation. Across all 1 sense there are 3 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 roentgen ray?

WordNet records no antonym for roentgen 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 roentgen 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 roentgen ray

• Full entry for roentgen rayAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for roentgen rayWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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