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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)