actinic

1. 1.

   relating to or exhibiting actinism

Questions about actinic

What does actinic mean?

actinic means "relating to or exhibiting actinism".

How many syllables are in actinic?

actinic has 3 syllables and divides as ac-ti-nic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is actinic a common word?

actinic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.