particulate radiation

1. 1.

   a stream of atomic or subatomic particles that may be charged positively (e.g. alpha particles) or negatively (e.g. beta particles) or not at all (e.g. neutrons)

   Synonymscorpuscular radiation

   Broaderradiation

   Narroweralpha radiationbeta radiationneutron radiation

Questions about particulate radiation

What does particulate radiation mean?

particulate radiation means "a stream of atomic or subatomic particles that may be charged positively (e.g. alpha particles) or negatively (e.g. beta particles) or not at all (e.g. neutrons)".

What is another word for particulate radiation?

Close synonyms include corpuscular 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 particulate radiation a common word?

particulate 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.