BACKSCATTER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they backscatter ... he / she / it backscatters

Past simple: backscattered

Past participle: backscattered

-ing form: backscattering

Meaning:

Scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "backscatter" is one way to...):

break up; disperse; scatter (cause to separate)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Sentence frame:

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