RADIATION FIELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radiation field mean? 

• RADIATION FIELD (noun)
  The noun RADIATION FIELD has 1 sense:

1. a field that represents the energy lost from the radiator to space

  Familiarity information: RADIATION FIELD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADIATION FIELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A field that represents the energy lost from the radiator to space

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("radiation field" is a kind of...):

field; field of force; force field (the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it)

 Context examples 

The radiation field created by a flood source for purposes of obtaining a flood image.

(Flood Field, NCI Thesaurus)

A radiation field that includes the bilateral cervical, supraclavicular, and axillary lymph nodes.

(Minimantle Radiation Field, NCI Thesaurus)

A radiation field that covers the anterior chest well in the shape of an inverted 'Y'.

(Inverted Y Radiation Field, NCI Thesaurus)

The team concluded that this molecular size variation is due both to some of the smallest molecules being destroyed by the harsh ultraviolet radiation field of the star, and to medium-sized molecules being irradiated so they combine into larger molecules.

(“Kitchen Smoke” Molecules in Nebula Offer Clues to the Building Blocks of Life, NASA)

Either a point at which there is a maximum or minimum of a radiation dose or the center point of a radiation field where the origin of the coordinate system is (x, y, z) = (0, 0 ,0).

(Isocenter, NCI Thesaurus)