HEAT RAY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A ray that produces a thermal effect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("heat ray" is a kind of...):

beam; beam of light; irradiation; light beam; ray; ray of light; shaft; shaft of light (a column of light (as from a beacon))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heat ray"):

infrared ray (a ray of infrared radiation; produces a thermal effect (as from an infrared lamp))

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