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BACKSCATTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does backscatter mean?
• BACKSCATTER (verb)
The verb BACKSCATTER has 1 sense:
1. scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes
Familiarity information: BACKSCATTER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they backscatter ... he / she / it backscatters
Past simple: backscattered
Past participle: backscattered
-ing form: backscattering
... he / she / it backscatters Past simple: backscattered
Past participle: backscattered
-ing form: backscattering
Sense 1
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:
Something ----s
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