ultraviolet radiation

What does ultraviolet radiation mean?

ultraviolet radiation means "radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays".

What is another word for ultraviolet radiation?

Close synonyms include ultraviolet, 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 radiation a common word?

ultraviolet 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ultraviolet radiation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.