Synonyms for radiation
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Noun
1. Irradiation
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light.
The radiation of love from the crowd was addictive to the young singer-songwriters.
Forms
- Plural
- radiations → irradiations, radiotherapies, radioactivities, irradiances…
Example sentences
- irradiation Red Light Irradiation was a word that was used on a daily basis in the GDR.
- radiotherapy Her first course of treatment was radiotherapy.
- radioactivity It was Marie Curie who discovered radioactivity.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| radiation | falling | |
| irradiation | falling | |
| radiotherapy | steady | |
| actinotherapy | steady | |
| radioactivity | falling | |
| irradiance | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- light1
- 9 letters
- spreading2
- 10 letters
- divergence3, irradiance
- 11 letters
- irradiation5
- 12 letters
- radiotherapy
- 13 letters
- radioactivity7, actinotherapy
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (spreading2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- rayonnement
- Deutsch
- Strahlung