ULTRAVIOLET ILLUMINATION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays

Synonyms:

ultraviolet; ultraviolet illumination; ultraviolet light; ultraviolet radiation; UV

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("ultraviolet illumination" is a kind of...):

actinic radiation; actinic ray (electromagnetic radiation that can produce photochemical reactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ultraviolet illumination"):

sun-ray; sunray (a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp)

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