electromagnetic radiation

1. 1.

   radiation consisting of waves of energy associated with electric and magnetic fields resulting from the acceleration of an electric charge

   Synonymselectromagnetic wavenonparticulate radiation

   Broaderradiation

   Narroweractinic radiationbeamblack-body radiationgamma radiationlinemicrowaveradio waveX ray

   Partsphoton

Questions about electromagnetic radiation

What does electromagnetic radiation mean?

electromagnetic radiation means "radiation consisting of waves of energy associated with electric and magnetic fields resulting from the acceleration of an electric charge".

What is another word for electromagnetic radiation?

Close synonyms include electromagnetic wave, nonparticulate radiation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electromagnetic radiation a common word?

electromagnetic radiation 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.