ultraviolet

Other forms of ultraviolet

plural

ultraviolets·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ultraviolet

What does ultraviolet mean?

ultraviolet means "radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ultraviolet?

ultraviolet has 5 syllables: ul-tra-vi-o-let. The stress falls on "vi". In IPA it is /ˌʌltɹəˈvaɪəlɪt/.

What is another word for ultraviolet?

Close synonyms include ultraviolet radiation, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet illumination, UV. 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 ultraviolet a common word?

ultraviolet is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ultraviolet?

2 words rhyme with ultraviolet. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.