nonparticulate radiation

Questions about nonparticulate radiation

What does nonparticulate radiation mean?

nonparticulate 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 nonparticulate radiation?

Close synonyms include electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave. 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 nonparticulate radiation a common word?

nonparticulate 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.